A 37-year-old man has been charged with a series of attacks on synagogues in northwest London.

Ionut-Cristian Bold, of no fixed address, has been charged with six counts of racially or religiously aggravated criminal damage and one count of racially or religiously aggravated harassment without violence.

The Metropolitan Police said four synagogues and a private residence had a substance smeared on them in northwest London between 4 September and 11 September.

Other incidents, which police described as "revolting and appalling", involved liquid being thrown towards a school and over a car in Barnet, north London.

It is understood the substance and liquid were bodily fluids.

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