Soccer chief on child sex charges
Date published: 14 October 2009
THE chairman of Oldham Town FC has been charged with sexual offences against children.
Ken Hughes, of White Bank Road, Limeside, is charged with six counts of indecently assaulting a boy and two charges of inciting the same boy to commit an act of gross indecency.
These offences are alleged to have occurred in the 1990s.
The 65-year-old is also charged with three counts of causing or inciting a boy to engage in sexual activity between 2006 and 2007 and three offences of engaging in sexual activity with a boy in 2008.
He was due to appear before Oldham Magistrates Court today.
Mr Hughes founded Oldham Town FC — who play in Division One of the Vodkat North West Counties League — as local works team George Dew in 1964.
If anyone has been a victim of sexual abuse they should contact Oldham CID on 0161-856 5740.
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