The first wave of Libyan army cadets being trained in Britain will be sent home early, British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said yesterday, after five were charged over a series of sex attacks on local residents.

Two cadets have been charged with raping a man in Cambridge on October 26, Cambridgeshire Police said.

Three more were charged with sexual assaults on women in Cambridge the same day, police said. Two of the men pleaded guilty at Cambridge Magistrates’ Court last week.

Cambridgeshire Police said it had also received nine reports of sexual assaults on October 17.

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