A 34-year-old man was due to appear in court today in connection with a series of sex attacks on women in Southend, London and Brighton.

Part-time disc jockey Richard Baker has been charged with 19 offences in connection with attacks on 10 women from May to December this year, according to a police spokesman.

He appeared in court last week accused of a further sex attack on a 35-year-old woman and was remanded in custody by magistrates.

The charges followed a huge police operation codenamed Operation Monarch involving Essex, Metropolitan and Sussex police forces.

Baker, whose address was given in court as Bodmin, Cornwall, was to appear before London's Horseferry Road magistrates today charged with four rapes, four indecent assaults, one attempted rape, two counts of actual bodily harm and eight counts of threats to kill.

He was remanded in custody on Friday to appear today accused of indecently assaulting and threatening to kill the 35-year-old woman in Highgate, north London, in May this year.

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