Ex head of police watchdog Michael Lockwood cleared of assaulting two teenagers

The former head of Britain’s police watchdog has been cleared of repeatedly assaulting two 14-year-old girls when he worked as a lifeguard in the 1980s. Michael Lockwood, 65, was the director general of the Independent Office for Police Conduct from 2018 and stood down when he was charged in December 2022. He was accused of assaulting two 14-year-old girls at a leisure centre in Hull, east Yorkshire, between 1979 and 1986 but was cleared by an Old Bailey jury today….