Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Lord Janner to face trial over historic sex abuse charges in new year


Lord Janner, who is accused of 22 sex abuse charges, will have his trial of the facts heard in the new year.

The 87-year-old is accused of 15 counts of indecent assault and seven counts of a separate sexual offence against a total of nine alleged victims in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

Twenty-one of the offences relate to complainants who were aged 16 or under at the time.

Janner was excused from attending the hearing before Mr Justice Sweeney at the Old Bailey today.

A fitness to plead hearing will take place on December 7 this year, and a provisional trial date has been set for February 22 2016, at a venue to be confirmed.  (more...)



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