UPDATE – Richard Burrows charged with additional sex offences

A man who was arrested after almost three decades on the run is set to been charged with a number of additional offences.

Richard Burrows was arrested on Thursday 28 March at Heathrow Airport having returned to the UK from Thailand.

Following his arrest the 80-year-old appeared in Court on Tuesday 2 April where he was remanded in custody and is next set to appear at Chester Crown Court on Monday 5 August.

Ahead of his hearing the Crown Prosecution have now authorised additional charges relating to four victims.

The new charges are:

• 21 counts of indecent assault
• 2 counts of Buggery

This brings the total number of charges against Burrows to:

• 6 counts of Buggery contrary
• 78 counts of Indecent Assault
• 2 counts of Indecency with a child
• 3 counts of Making Indecent Images of Children,
• 4 counts of Possession of a False Identity Document with Intent

These relate to 26 victims and offences which were committed between 1968 and 1995 in Cheshire, West Midlands and West Mercia areas.

The offences in Cheshire occurred between 1969 and 1971 while he was working as a carer, looking after vulnerable children at Danesford Children’s Home in Congleton.

His victims in the West Midlands and West Mercia areas, were all young boys who were abused between 1968 and 1995, the majority through local Scout groups where Burrows worked as a leader.