This is the first picture of the pensioner charged in connection with a suspected poisoning at a children’s summer camp.
Jonathan Ruben, 76, was arrested on Monday after eight children and an adult were taken to hospital as a precaution when they fell ill at the Leicestershire camp. All have since been discharged.
The camp was being run by the Stathern Children's Holiday Fund SCHF, which provides ‘school clubs or subsidised holidays’ for children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds in Nottingham.
Mr Ruben, a veterinary surgeon whose business was dissolved last August according to Companies House records, is listed as a trustee of the charity.
Leicestershire Police this afternoon announced that Mr Ruben had been charged with child cruelty offences.
