Man and woman charged in child sex abuse inquiry

A man and a woman have been charged by detectives investigating reports of non-recent child sexual abuse in Bradford.

Brenda Altham, 68, has been charged with nine counts of counselling the rape of a girl under the aged of 16.

Paul Hinsley, also 68, has been charged with four counts of counselling the rape of a girl under the age of 16.

The charges relate to offences which are reported to have occurred in the Thorpe Edge area of the city in the late 1970s and relate to one female victim who was aged 14 at the time.

The defendants, who are both from Bradford, have been bailed to appear at the city's magistrates' court on 1 December.

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