A DOG agility trainer has appeared in court charged with multiple sex offences including the alleged rape of a child.

Oliver Tatton, of Framlingham Close, St Peter's, Worcester, did not enter pleas to the nine charges when he appeared before magistrates in Worcester on Thursday.

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The 30-year-old faces the following charges: rape of a girl aged between 13 and 15 in Farnborough in Hampshire between June 12, 2013 and June 11, 2016; causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, again alleged to have taken place in Hampshire over the same dates, and sexual activity with a girl aged 13 to 15 at Cranleigh Showground in Surrey between June 12, 2013 and June 11, 2016.

He is also facing charges of sexual activity with a girl aged 13 to 15 at Farnborough over the same dates; sexual communication with a child in Evesham on November 23, 2018; sexual assault on a female (adult) in Gloucester on January 1, 2017 and sending a communication of an indecent nature between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2018 at Gloucester.

The message was said in the charge to be 'of an indecent or grossly offensive nature for the purpose of causing distress or anxiety to the recipient or to any other person'.

Tatton is further charged with causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity at Farnborough between June 12, 2013 and June 11, 2016 and engaging in penetrative sexual activity against a girl aged 13 between the same dates.

Because some of the offences were indictable-only, magistrates declined jurisdiction.

Tatton was bailed to attend Worcester Crown Court on Thursday June 9.