Oldham man charged with non-recent child sexual offences

74-year-old Christopher Pickup has been charged with 26 offences of indecent assault

Author: Luke WilsonPublished 7th Apr 2021

A man from Oldham has been charged with non-recent child sexual offences.

74-year-old Christopher Pickup from Underwood Way, Shaw has been charged with 26 offences of indecent assault on a boy under the age of 14 years.

He is scheduled to appear at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court on Thursday 6 May 2021.

In August 2019, police received a report of sexual offences against children at a school in Oldham in the 1970s and an investigation was launched.

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