Four Nigerian students and a
Kurdish national are to appear at court today following an investigation into
alleged sexual assaults on three girls under 14 and a 22-year-old woman.
Detectives launched an
investigation last year, assisted by Plymouth University and the Nigerian
government, following disclosures made by three girls, all aged under 14, to
social workers and police officers.
Senior investigator Det Insp
Barry Walter said the Nigerian men were all studying at the either Plymouth
University's international college or Plymouth University at the time of the
alleged offences.
He said the men, plus the
Kurdish suspect who was not a student, were interviewed by officers involved in
the investigation, code named Operation Weevil.