UNITED KINGDOM
Chichester Observer
An Eastbourne man has today (Thursday, August 16) been charged with sexual offences against boys, including 13 alleged assaults in Chichester.
The charges allege that Robert Coles, 71, of Upperton Road, Eastbourne committed 13 assaults on a boy, then aged 15 and 16 at a location in Chichester between 1982 and 1984. They comprise three offences of buggery, one of attempted buggery, and nine of indecent assault.
They also include eight offences of indecent assault on another boy then aged between ten and 13 at locations in Broadbridge Heath in West Sussex, Devon, Cornwall and the Isle of White between 1978 and 1981; and;
eight offences of indecent assault on another boy then aged between ten and 13 at locations in Broadbridge Heath in West Sussex, Somerset and Devon between 1978 and 1982.
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