A POLICE community support officer from Stevenage has been charged with running a brothel with his wife in the town.

Sean and Debbie Griffin, both 44, of York Road, were arrested and charged with running a brothel and money laundering after Herts Police raided a residential property in Silam Road in the town on July 21.

PCSO Griffin, an officer with a safer neighbourhood team in Enfield, has been suspended from his job by the Metropolitan Police.

The couple are due to appear at Stevenage Magistrates’ Court on October 26.