A trial date has been set for a 76-year-old pensioner accused of giving young boys sweets laced with sedatives at a children's summer camp.
Jon Ruben, of Wayte Court in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, is charged with child cruelty offences relating to three boys but was not asked to enter any pleas when he appeared at Leicester Crown Court this morning.
His plea hearing was adjourned until November 14 and a trial date was set for January 27 next year.
The court heard that Ruben's trial is expected to last four weeks.
At a previous court hearing, Ruben was told he is charged with three counts of wilfully assaulting, ill-treating, neglecting, abandoning or exposing children in a manner likely to cause them unnecessary suffering or injury to health between July 25 and 29.
