A local man will appear before the Magistrates’ Court this morning after being charged with three child sex offences – following a Royal Gibraltar Police investigation.

Nicholas Whiffen, 42, was last night charged at New Mole House Police Station with two counts of attempted Sexual Communication with a child and one count of attempted Causing, Encouraging or Assisting Child Prostitution or Pornography.

Whiffen was arrested at around 540am yesterday morning by detectives from the RGP’s Safeguarding Team.

His arrest came after the RGP received intelligence that he had communicated in a sexual manner and sent indecent images of himself to two different juveniles.

Information was also received that he had asked for pornographic images of one of the juveniles.

At New Mole House he was interviewed and charged with the above offences late last night.

He was then remanded at New Mole House Police Station overnight pending his court appearance at the Magistrates’ Court at 10am.