Child sex abuse suspect living near school again

POLICE have allowed a man accused of child sex abuse to return to a house next to a primary school, just a week after they removed him on “safety” grounds.

- Jon Austin

Northamptonshire’s force has yet to explain why it moved Verners Ricards Miklavs back to the address a day before his lawyers were due to apply to court to allow his return.

District Judge John McGarva approved the return on March 20 on bail terms he was previously under.

On March 13, police moved Miklavs to a hotel, before the National Crime Agency made a retrospective bail variation application.

It was approved the next day at Westmin- ster Magistrates’ Court after it heard concerns from the force his proximity to the school posed potential child safeguarding issues.