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A former vet and primary school teacher has been charged over the alleged poisoning of children at a Christian summer camp in Leicestershire.
Jonathan Ruben, 76, the secretary of a charity running the holiday getaway, has been charged with three counts of wilful ill-treatment of a child. The charges relate to three different children.
Mr Ruben, of Ruddington, Nottingham, has been remanded into custody and will appear at Leicester magistrates’ court on Saturday.
Police received a report of children feeling unwell at the camp at Stathern Lodge on Sunday, but officers were not deployed until Monday.
Ten ambulances and an air ambulance were in attendance, and eight children, all boys aged between eight and 11, were taken to hospital as a precaution. They have all since been discharged.
On Monday, Mr Ruben was arrested in a pub car park in Plungar, just over a mile from the lodge, where the village hall was used as a triage centre to assess all children present at the camp.
Before he retired, he spent more than 40 years as a vet after qualifying from the Royal (Dick) Vet School in Edinburgh in 1972 before completing a PhD in virology, studying NDV in chickens.
He opened his own small animal practice in the 1980s, which expanded to eight vets and four branches, but then changed direction and qualified as an early years primary school teacher. He then worked as a locum vet, and as the children and youth worker at his church.
Mr Ruben is thought to have ended his work as a locum vet last year when he dissolved his company, but had previously stood to join the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Council in 2012. He received 800 votes, short of the 1,200 needed to be elected.
According to a blog for his campaign, he had previously stood for the Conservatives at local elections in Edinburgh.
The children were at the summer camp at the lodge, owned by the Braithwaite Gospel Trust, a Christian charity, which bought it in 2017, when they fell ill.
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https://uk.yahoo.com/news/pensioner-...172043201.html
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