Young boys were given sweets laced with sedatives in a suspected poisoning at a children's summer camp, a court has been told.
Jon Ruben, 76, appeared at Leicester Magistrates' Court this morning accused of child cruelty offences and was remanded in custody.
He has been charged with three offences of wilful ill treatment of a child relating to three boys at the summer camp between July 25 and July 29.
The court was told the charges concern sweets which were allegedly laced with sedatives.
Police received a report on Sunday that children at the camp being held in a lodge in Stathern, Leicestershire, had become ill.
