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The new CPS charges include one of causing a
person to engage in sexual activity without consent and others
of indecent and sexual assault. The new charges follow a review
of evidence gathered by British police.
Spacey, 63, was previously accused of five offences in Britain -
four counts of sexual assault by touching, and a more serious
charge of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual
activity without consent.
His lawyer had said in June Spacey had "strenuously" denied
those allegations of sex offences.
Spacey's defence lawyer in Britain, Patrick Gibbs, did not
immediately respond to an email seeking comment on the latest
charges.
In the United States, Spacey last month defeated a sexual abuse
case against him after jurors in a Manhattan civil trial found
his accuser did not prove his claim that Spacey made an unwanted
sexual advance on him when he was 14.
(Reporting by Farouq Suleiman and Sachin Ravikumar; Editing by
Kate Holton and Toby Chopra)
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