Officer faces child sex charges

A POLICE officer who headed a child abuse investigation unit is facing a string of child sex offence charges, it has emerged.

Detective Inspector Glen Boulton of West Midlands Police is accused of six sex offences involving two girls aged under 16.

The 44-year-old from Solihull appeared at Wolverhampton Magistrates’ Court on May 11 charged with four counts of indecent assault and two counts of indecency with a child.