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John Leslie Charged With Sexual Assault Following Nightclub Incident<\/b><\/p>\n

TV presenter John Leslie<\/a> has been charged with sexual assault.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The former \u2018This Morning\u2019<\/a> host\u00a0\u00a0is alleged to have put his hand up a woman<\/a>\u2019s skirt during a night out in Edinburgh in June.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old woman<\/a> was on a hen night at Atik nightclub in Tollcross when the incident is alleged to have happened.<\/p>\n

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A Police Scotland spokesman said: \u201cPolice in Edinburgh have charged a 52-year-old man<\/a> following a report that a 26-year-old woman<\/a> was the victim of a sexual assault at a nightclub in the Tollcross area on Sunday 25 June.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesman for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service added they had received a report about the matter and it is \u201ccurrently under consideration\u201d.<\/p>\n

Leslie has since spoken out to \u201ctotally deny the allegation that has been made\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI have not done anything wrong,\u201d he told The Mirror<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

His solicitor also issued a statement claiming there is CCTV evidence to back up his version of events.<\/p>\n

\u201cCCTV cameras<\/a> captured the whole event and the footage has been submitted by us along with \u00adwitness statements to the procurator fiscal for consideration,\u201d solicitor Mark Harrower said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my view it is entirely consistent with my client\u2019s account of events.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leslie rose to fame as one of the hosts of \u2018Blue Peter\u2019<\/a> in 1989, before going on to host the likes of \u2018Style Challenge\u2019 and \u2018Wheel of Fortune\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He presented \u2018This Morning\u2019 with Fern Britton<\/a> from 1999 to 2002, when he was replaced by current host Phillip Schofield<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was said to be entering the \u2018Celebrity Big Brother\u2019 house this summer, but was rumoured to have pulled out at the eleventh hour<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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