A CLERGYMAN appeared in court on Tuesday accused of committing sex offences against teenage boys.
The Rev Neville Husband, 64, a United Reformed Church minister, is alleged to have carried out the assaults while working on the catering staff at the former Medomsley Detention Centre in the Seventies and Eighties.
Mr Husband, of Shotley Bridge, who appeared before Chester-le-Street magistrates, was not asked to plead to charges of raping and indecently assaulting a teenage boy.
He is also charged with indecently assaulting two other teenagers.
Peter Smith, prosecuting, applied successfully for an order preventing publication of photographs of Mr Husband, pending the completion of an identity process. The minister was granted conditional bail and the case was adjourned to February 12.
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