A pensioner charged in connection with a suspected poisoning at a children’s summer camp has been remanded in custody.
John Ruben, 76, appeared at Leicester Magistrates’ Court this morning accused of child cruelty offences.
He was arrested on Monday after eight children and an adult fell ill at the camp in Stathern, Leicestershire.
They were taken to hospital as a precaution but have all since been discharged.
The camp was being run by the Stathern Children’s Holiday Fund SCHF, which provides ‘school clubs or subsidised holidays’ for children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds in Nottingham.
Mr Ruben, a veterinary surgeon whose business was dissolved last August according to Companies House records, is listed as a trustee of the charity.
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Jonathan Ruben, 76, has been charged in connection with a suspected poisoning at a children’s summer camp
