54 h. ago Pensioner charged with child cruelty offences after boys fell ill at summer camp appears in court

Jon Ruben, 76, appeared at Leicester Crown Court for a brief hearing on Friday

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55 h. ago Retired vet 'will face more charges' after he was accused of lacing summer camp boys' sweets with sedatives

Jon Ruben, 76, has been charged with child cruelty offences relating to three boys, but was not asked to enter any pleas during his brief 15-minute hearing at Leicester Crown Court this morning.

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56 h. ago Pensioner accused of lacing summer camp boys' sweets with sedatives to face January trial on child cruelty charges

Jon Ruben, of Wayte Court in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, is charged with child cruelty offences relating to three boys but was not asked to enter any pleas this morning.

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57 h. ago Trial date set for man, 76, accused of giving children sweets laced with sedatives at summer camp

Jon Ruben, 76, is accused of giving children with sweets laced with sedatives

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57 h. ago Trial date set for man accused over ‘sweets laced with sedatives’ at summer camp

The court heard that Jon Ruben’s trial is expected to last four weeks.

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63 h. ago Man, 76, to face court over ‘sweets laced with sedatives’ at summer camp

Children became unwell at the camp in July

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69 h. ago Pensioner to enter pleas over ‘sweets laced with sedatives’ at summer camp

Eight children and one adult were taken to hospital as a precaution after the incident in Stathern, Leicestershire.

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2 d. ago Dad charged with murdering missing baby 'previously abused daughter so badly she developed cerebral palsy'

Jake Haros was previously convicted for willful child cruelty after he abused his baby daughter so badly she developed cerebral palsy, according to a prosecutor.

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2 w. ago Pensioner 'beaten to death' after shopkeepers accuse him of stealing chocolate bar

The 67-year-old was reportedly dumped by a roadside after allegedly being punched, kicked and hit with an iron rod.

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2 w. ago Pensioner brutally killed after being accused of 'stealing chocolate from shop'

The 67-year-old was reportedly beaten to death after it was alleged he stole a bar of chocolate from a local shop with a passer-by rushing him from the roadside to hospital

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2 w. ago The Magician of Tiger Castle by Louis Sachar review – whimsical fantasy in a kingdom long, long ago

In this first adult novel from the acclaimed children’s author, an immortal magician returns to tell the story of a royal court where he cast his spells some 500 years beforeThe American author Louis Sachar’s most celebrated book, 1998’s YA novel Holes, was a huge word-of-mouth success on both sides of the Atlantic. Its short, punchy chapters tell the story of plump, hapless Stanley Yelnats, sent to a summer camp for wayward boys, where a terrifying Warden has peculiar ideas about character reformation. The 5ft-deep holes the boys are required to dig turn out to have a surprising purpose. Shifts of time, register and perspective render a simple premise mesmerisingly intricate. It has peril, love, crime, wickedness, redemption and friendship in, well, spades.A quarter of a century later, Sachar has written his first supposedly adult novel, in which many of the same ingredients reappear. A man “dressed like a typical American tourist”, but with an odd habit of storing cake crumbs in t...

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3 w. ago Boy, 13, has legs amputated after sports camp 'leg cramp' turns out to be sepsis

Austin Hunter, 13, made the heartbreaking decision to amputate both his legs in a battle with a serious complication of a Strep A infection – where bacteria had made its way into his bloodstream

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4 w. ago Man in court accused of lacing sweets with sedatives before summer camp children fell ill

Jon Ruben, 76, remanded in custody in connection with the incident at Stathern Lodge in LeicestershireA man has been remanded in custody charged with child cruelty offences after children became unwell at a summer camp in Leicestershire.Jon Ruben, 76, appeared in Leicester magistrates court after being 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, where he was told he would be remanded in custody and appear at Leicester crown court on Friday 29 August. Continue reading...

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