Reality TV star Jade Goody's widower Jack Tweed has been remanded in custody until September on a rape charge, a court heard on Saturday. The 22-year-old, who wore a blue hooded top, spoke only to confirm his name, address and date of birth at Redbridge Magistrates' Court.
He was taken into custody until September 21 when he will appear at Snaresbrook Crown Court, the Press Association reported. Earlier the Metropolitan Police said Tweed had been charged with one count of rape in connection with an incident in the early hours of Friday. The court heard how the suspected offence took place at Tweed's home in Woodford Green, east London.
Police arrested Tweed and another man in his twenties on Friday after a teenage woman reported she had been sexually assaulted. The second man has been bailed. Officers investigating the alleged rape said in a statement they had arrested a third person, aged 25, on Friday night. He is being held at an east London police station.
Tweed, who has been in and out of the headlines and has admitted drinking heavily was jailed for 12 weeks in April, shortly after his wife's death, for assaulting a taxi driver. Goody, who shot to fame after appearing on the Big Brother television show, died in March after a high profile fight against cancer. She and Tweed married after doctors told her the cancer had spread and was terminal.