Crown court date set for men charged with child sex offences

Four men will appear at Aylesbury Crown Court next month in relation to multiple child sex offence charges.

The men, from Maidenhead, Flackwell Heath and Wooburn Green were charged in April as part of police Operation Royce along with four other men from outside the area.

They all appeared at Wycombe Magistrates’ Court yesterday, where they were committed to crown court as the charges are all indictable and so beyond the jurisdiction of a magistrates’ court.

The men were all arrested in February last year, for offences alleged to have taken place between 2008 and 2015 and relating to one victim.

The charged men are:

• Steven Douglas, 21, of Fennels Way, Flackwell Heath, was arrested on February 10, 2015. He was charged on April 19 with two counts of an offender 18 or over engaging in penetrative sexual activity with a girl aged 13 to 15.
• Alex Foale, 20, of Green Dragon Lane, Flackwell Heath, was arrested on February 12 2015 and charged on April 20 with two counts of being an offender 18 or over engaging in penetrative sexual activity with a girl aged 13 to 15.
• Ryan Squire, 22, of Coaters Lane, Wooburn Green, was arrested on February 10 2015 and charged on April 20, with three counts of being an offender 18 or over engaging in penetrative sexual activity with a girl aged 13 to 15.
• Ryan Henry 22, of Blackamoor Lane, Maidenhead, was arrested on February 10 2015 and charged on April 20 with two counts of being an offender 18 or over engaging in penetrative sexual activity with a girl aged 13 to 15, one count of taking an indecent photograph/pseudo-photograph of a child, one count of causing/inciting a child 13 to 17 to prostitution/pornography, and two counts of making an indecent photograph/pseudo-photograph of a child.

They were released on conditional bail and will all appear at Aylesbury Crown Court on Tuesday, July 5.