A TEENAGER was remanded in custody and committed to Teesside Crown Court on two charges of sexual assault on a child.

Ian Graham Pritchard, 19, appeared by videolink from Holme House Prison, Stockton, at Newton Aycliffe Magistrates Court.

A former resident of Middleton St George, near Darlington, Mr Pritchard, of Gainsborough, was remanded in custody to appear at Teesside at a date to be set.