Charge Note: West Yorkshire Officer Charged with Sexual Offence

*Wednesday 9 July 2025*

A West Yorkshire Police officer has been charged with a further sexual offence.    

PC Jo Lavender, now aged 43, had already been charged with six counts of rape and two counts of indecent assault on a girl under the age of 14-years-old. These charges relate to off-duty non-recent offences against four females.    

He has been further charged with a seventh count of rape against another female.  

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