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News / Former isles man faces child sex charges

A FORMER Shetland resident now living in Denmark faces a trial in the islands next month over allegations that he seriously sexually abused two children more than 30 years ago.

Michael Bruce Polson, aged 50, whose address was given as care of his Aberdeen solicitors, is charged with lewd, indecent and libidinous practices at a house in Shetland between 1974 and 1982.

The alleged victims are a woman who would have been aged between five and 12 at the time, and a man who would have been aged between four and five.

No plea has been tendered and a trial has been set for 18 May in Lerwick Sheriff Court.

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