English cricket is reeling after it emerged {that a} well-known determine within the sport, in his forties, is being investigated over allegations of spiking and sexual assault.
In accordance with the Every day Telegraph, the incidents passed off on Could 22 within the SW6 space of London (Fulham and Parsons Inexperienced), and the person was interviewed by police on June 5. The ECB, who’re conscious of the allegations, have declined to remark.
The Metropolitan Police mentioned in a press release: ‘Two ladies are believed to have been spiked with one additionally allegedly sexually assaulted. A person in his 40s was interviewed beneath warning on Thursday, June 5. Enquiries stay ongoing and no arrests have been made at this stage.’
The information comes after a county coach – whose identification was not disclosed by the Cricket Self-discipline Panel – was suspended for 9 months in August after inappropriate behaviour to 2 members of workers in 2023 and 2024.
A CDC assertion mentioned: ‘He engaged in inappropriate and sexualised messaging, together with sending pictures of his erect penis, to extra junior feminine members of workers at a CCC [county cricket club]. On one event he tried to kiss one of many extra junior members of workers.’
Final November, knowledgeable coach – additionally unnamed – was suspended for six months for ‘inappropriate sexual behaviour’.
Chris Haward, the managing director of the Cricket Regulator, mentioned that ‘eradicating sexual misconduct from the sport is a precedence for the Cricket Regulator’.
A widely known determine inside English cricket is being investigated over allegations of spiking and sexual assault
