The trial of a former North Wales police chief charged with historic sex offences is to take place at the Old Bailey.
Gordon Anglesea, 78, a retired superintendent, faces two indictments, and although his hearings have so far been heard in Mold, it was decided yesterday to try him in London’s top criminal court.
The trial is expectedto last around six weeks.
Anglesea had indicated not guilty pleas but the charges have not been formally put to him after his barrister Tania Griffiths QC, said that would keep open the option for any application to dismiss once all the evidence had been served by the prosecution.
Anglesea was arrested and charged last year by detectives from Operation Pallial , a National Crime Investigation into claims of historical sex offences in the North Wales care home system, and originally faced a total of seven charges between 1979 and 1987.
Anglesea, of Gwynant, Old Colwyn , was charged with three offences of indecent assault and one offence of sex with a youngster in the Wrexham area between May 1984 and May 1985.
He was further charged with indecent assault and sex assault on a second youth under the age of 16 in the Colwyn Bay area between July 1979 and August 1980.
And it was alleged that he indecently assaulted a boy under 16 at Mold between January 1986 and January 1987.
Following his first court appearance, he was charged with three more offences – two charges of indecent assault and one charge of a sexual assault – on one complainant aged 14 or 15 between September 1982 and September 1983.
Anglesea was been bailed on condition that he does not contact witnesses.
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