The jury in the trial of a former care home worker from Quinton has been dismissed for legal reasons.
Norman Leslie, of Bent Avenue, has been accused of sexual assaults relating to a period when he was manager of two care homes in Birmingham during the mid-1980s.
Judge Hindley QC told jurors at Birmingham Crown Court they were no longer required to consider verdicts in the case yesterday, Wednesday.
Sixty-one-year old Leslie denies five serious sexual assaults, one attempt to commit a serious sexual assault, six charges of indecent assault and one of indecency with a child.
The case has been adjourned until Monday March 26.
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