65-year-old man secures stay in indecent assault case

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A 65-year-old man accused of indecent assault secured permission for a High Court challenge and a stay on his prosecution on 20 May 2019. He cannot be named for legal reasons. He denies the accusations.

He alleges his lawyers were denied information needed to defend more than a dozen charges concerning events alleged to have occurred in the 1970s and 1980s. The stay was put in place pending the High Court action, which was returned to July.