A Metropolitan Police officer has become the first person to be charged as a result of a BBC Panorama investigation into alleged misconduct at Charing Cross police station in London.

Sgt Sadiq Al-Hasani, 37, has been charged with perverting the course of justice.

He will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.

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