Gulzar charged with boy's assault

The former husband of Spice Girl Mel B was today charged with assaulting a three-year-old child at London Zoo.

Jimmy Gulzar, 34, allegedly smacked the autistic boy on the bottom when his daughter Phoenix Chi fell as the two children scrambled to get on a 50p ride.

Gulzar, of Willesden, denies hitting the child following the alleged incident on 1 September.

He was charged this morning and will appear at Horseferry magistrates court on Monday.

Gulzar, a former backing dancer for the Spice Girls, married Melanie Brown, 26, in 1998 but Brown threw Gulzar out of her £2.5 million home in Little Marlow, Bucks, at Christmas 1999.