Music star Aggro Santos has been charged with two counts of rape.

He is accused of raping a woman in Chichester on May 7 this year and a second count or rape in Somerset in 2010.

A Sussex Police statement said: “The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised Sussex Police to charge a man in relation to two separate investigations of rape in Somerset and Sussex and a second man in relation to the offence in Sussex.

“Yuri Santos, 22, of Bickersteth Road, London, has been charged with two offences of rape; one in Chichester on 7 May, 2011 and another in Yeovil between 25 and 26 September last year.

“Tyrelle Ritchie, 21, Vauxhall Road, London, has been charged with one offence of rape in Chichester on 7 May, 2011.

“The two men have been bailed to appear before Chichester Magistrates Court on 19 September.”