A retired primary school teacher who denies charges of sexually abusing a number of former pupils has brought a High Court challenge aimed at preventing his prosecution.
The teacher, now aged in his late 70s, is facing more than 60 counts of indecently assaulting almost a dozen girls at the national school from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s.
Mr Justice Michael Peart yesterday heard the man, who denies all the allegations, wanted to prevent his prosecution on grounds including that the delay in bringing the charges has caused a real risk of an unfair trial.