A MAN has been charged following the rape of a teenager in a park.

Arshad Arif, aged 28, from Belfast Avenue, Slough, has been charged with kidnap and two counts of rape after a 17-year-old female, who had travelled from Watford in a taxi with a male passenger, was attacked in Salt Hill Park on Sunday morning (25).

He has been remanded in custody to appear at Slough Magistrates' Court today (Thursday ).