A man has been charged with sexual offences in Southsea.

We received a report from a member of the public at 6.54pm yesterday (Thursday 9 April) of a man communicating online with and arranging to meet a person he believed to be a child in Southsea.

Sabah Abdullah, aged 42, and of Telephone Road in Southsea, has now been charged with being an adult attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child and attempting to arrange/inciting a child to commit a sexual act.

Abdullah, who is an Iraqi national, has been remanded in custody to appear at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court on Saturday 11 April.