Former newspaper proprietor Eddie Shah is to make his first appearance in court charged with raping and abusing a girl.
Shah, 68, was arrested last September with four other people in relation to allegations of sex with a minor.
He will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court accused of seven counts of rape of a female under the age of 16, and two counts of gross indecency with a girl under 14.
Eddie Shah is to make his first appearance in court charged with raping and abusing a girl
Shah, from Chippenham, Wiltshire, was charged last month with two other people over the sex offences, said to have happened in the 1990s, against the same alleged victim, then aged between 12 and 15.
Shah, whose real name is Selim Shah, founded the now-defunct Today newspaper in 1986.
A local publisher before that, he confronted the trade unions at his Warrington print works and Manchester news offices and became the first person to invoke Margaret Thatcher's Anti-Union Laws to force unions to the bargaining table.
According to his website, he has now moved into the property and leisure building business with wife Jennifer.
Anthony Pallant, of West Malling, Kent, is charged with two counts of rape of a female under the age of 16, and one count of indecent assault on a girl under 14.
He also faces four counts of gross indecency with a girl under 16, jointly charged with Susan Davies, 52, from Kent. The alleged offences are said to have happened on various dates between 1991 and 1994.
Davies is also charged with one count of indecent assault on a girl under 14 and two counts of gross indecency with a girl under 16 - charged jointly with Shah - and seven counts of aiding and abetting the rape of a female under the age of 16 by Shah.
They are alleged to have occurred on various dates between 1991 and 1995, according to Scotland Yard.
All three are on bail and are expected to appear in court from 10am.
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