A 23-year-old Anerley man has been charged with raping a 15-year-old schoolgirl.

Daniel Elliot, of Rosewell Close, is accused of attacking the girl in the playground of Grove Park in Carshalton at 8.30pm on Saturday, November 15.

A 17-year-old boy is said to have been with the girl at the time.

Elliot, who will appear at Croydon Magistrates’ Court today, has also been charged with a second rape, and a sexual attack in Wallington.

He is accused of raping a 16-year-old girl in Beddington Park on September 5 this year.

Elliot is further accused of sexually assaulting a woman in her 20s in Mellowes Park in Wallington on August 3 this year.

The Met Police have not provided any other details about the two attacks and they had not been made public before now.

The charges today follow the earlier arrest of a 26-year-old man on Monday, November 17, who was bailed to return in mid-December.