A FORMER care worker at the West Kirby Residential School, who is now aged 81, has been charged with further indecency allegations.

Henry Duncan Christie, now living in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, is awaiting trial at Liverpool Crown Court.

At Wirral Magistrates' Court further allegations going back to 1961 were listed against him and he was bailed in his absence for four weeks.

There are seven new charges of indecent assault on young girls at Hoylake, Thurstaston, Byrne Avenue Swimming Baths and elsewhere on Wirral, and one matter of attempted rape on a girl under the age of 16.

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