The alleged rape of a teenage woman in a Hampshire city centre last weekend had led to a man being charged.

A police investigation was launched after receiving a report that the 19-year-old was raped on Winston Churchill Avenue in Portsmouth at round 1.15am on Sunday.

The woman is currently being supported by specialist officers.

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Officers have been trying to establish the full circumstances of what had happened and have now charged a man.

Sebastine Kava Liliu, aged 24, of no fixed address, has been charged with rape. He has been remanded to appear at Portsmouth Magistrates' Court today.

A 28-year-old man from Portsmouth previously arrested on suspicion of rape has been released without charge and will face no further action.