Travelodge’s chief executive Jo Boydell has stepped down, the hotel chain has announced.

It comes amid the fallout of a 2022 sexual assault at a Maidenhead Travelodge hotel, where staff mistakenly issued a key card to a woman’s attacker.

Travelodge said it is continuing to “overhaul its safety procedures” after the assault.

In February, Kyran Smith was given a seven-and-a-half year prison sentence for the attack.

In March, Ms Boydell apologised to the victim, who cannot be named, in a statement.

She added that the company had made “immediate changes” to its door key policy.

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