UNITED KINGDOM
Liverpool Echo
A former priest accused of historic sex offences against two schoolboys at a catholic college run by the Archdiocese of Liverpool is set to stand trial.
Michael Higginbottom, 73, is alleged to have sexually abused children at St Joseph’s College in Up Holland, near Skelmersdale, in the late 1970s.
The school, which shut in 1992, was a Roman Catholic seminary and provided a secondary education to boys aged 11–18 who wished to go into the priesthood.
The alleged offences are said to have taken place in the late 1970s when the complainants were in their early teens.
Higginbottom appeared at Liverpool Crown Court this morning where he pleaded not guilty to four counts of indecent assault and two counts of buggery.
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