An OAP has been charged with a string of historic sex offences against three girls which are alleged to have taken place in Hove in the 1980s.
Michael Coggins, 68, retired, of Church St, Alcombe, Minehead, has been charged with 21 sexual offences against young girls known to him, in Hove between 1980 and 1986.
Coggins has been charged with 12 offences of indecent assault and nine offences of gross indecency, against a total of three teenage girls, then aged between seven and 16.
11 offences were allegedly committed against one of the girls, 9 against the second, and one against the third.
He is due to appear on bail at Brighton Magistrates Court at 2pm on Thursday 24 March.
The prosecution, authorised by the CPS, follows an investigation by detectives from the Brighton and Hove Safeguarding Investigations Unit.
