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Sophie Robinson

Man, 76, remanded in custody over ‘sweets laced with sedatives’ at summer camp

The scene in Stathern, Leicestershire (Jacob King/PA) - (PA Wire)

A 76-year-old man has been remanded in custody charged with child cruelty offences after children became unwell at a summer camp in Leicestershire.

Jon Ruben, of Wayte Court in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, appeared at Leicester Magistrates’ Court on Saturday morning charged with three counts of wilfully assaulting, ill-treating, neglecting, abandoning or exposing children in a manner likely to cause them unnecessary suffering or injury to health, relating to three boys at the summer camp between July 25 and July 29.

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