‘They have no reason to lie’

Two women accusing the former head of Britain’s police watchdog of assaulting them when he worked as a lifeguard in the 1980s have ‘no reason to lie’, a court heard. Michael Lockwood, 65, is said to have assaulted two 14-year-old girls at a leisure centre in Hull, east Yorkshire, between 1979 and 1986. He stood down as director general of the Independent Office for Police Conduct in December 2022. Lockwood denies three counts of rape and six counts of indecent…