A 43-year-old man has been charged with raping a teenage girl in a Brentford church graveyard.

David Simapuka was arrested last Friday after allegedly attacking the girl while she waited for the E2 bus near St Faith's Church in Windmill Road, Brentford, on May 25.

Simapuka is accused of dragging the girl from the bus stop between 1am and 2.30am and raping her twice in the church graveyard, as well as threatening to kill her.

Simapuka, of no fixed address, appeared in Feltham Magistrates' Court on Monday and was remanded in custody until he appears at Isleworth Crown Court on July 13.