UNITED KINGDOM
North Devon Journal
A RETIRED NFU officer has denied sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy at his Devon farm more than 40 years ago.
Philip Huxtable is a lay preacher, former Captain of the Braunton Boys Brigade, governor of two primary schools in North Devon and clerk to three parish councils.
He is on trial at Exeter Crown Court accused of abusing a boy who he met while running a youth club and whom he employed with a Saturday job for three months on his farm at Shirwell in 1973. …
The jury were read two testimonials detailing Huxtable’s work in the community as an elder of the Christ Church Methodist and United Reform Church in Braunton and the associated Boys Brigade, where he was Captain for 18 years.
He was also chair of governors at Shirwell Primary School for eight years and a governor at North Molton school for 20 years. He has also been clerk to the Pilton, Shirwell and Fremington parish councils and chairman of the Dexter Cattle Group.
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