A 59-year-old man has been charged with sexually assaulting three teenage girls on four occasions.

Derick Farmer, of Iron Mill Road, Wandsworth, was set to appear in court today accused of attacking two girls in Carshalton and South Croydon.

He is alleged to have sexually assaulted one of the girls, aged under 14, on three separate occasions in Carshalton between May 1994 and 1995.

He is charged with attacking another girl, aged under 16, in South Croydon between September 2002 and 2003.

He was due to appear at Croydon Magistrates' Court charged with four counts of indecent assault.