In 2015 a distressed woman turned up at Luton police station to find her 76-year-old husband was under arrest. Officers from Bedfordshire Police’s Safeguarding unit then revealed the devastating news: he had been accused of historic child sexual abuse allegations dating back to the 1970s.
Cameras filming 24 Hours in Police Custody caught the dramatic story, including every twist of the police investigation as detectives pieced together allegations to work out if there was enough evidence to build a case. The popular Channel Four cop show will air again on Thursday night, April 4, if you want to catch the action.
In the episode ‘Their Time Will Come’, viewers are taken back to October 2015, when the force announced they had charged the man, Charlie Jones, with nine counts, including two counts of rape, four counts of indecent assault, and one of buggery. At the time, the granddad, of Maidenbower Avenue in Dunstable, denied the crimes under police questioning.
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Jones was unfit to stand trial due to his health issues, so a trial of issue relating to nine charges was heard at Luton Crown Court instead. In 2017, the jury found four charges proven and Jones was ordered to be placed in secure accommodation outside of Bedfordshire, and was banned from having unsupervised contact with any child under 16 years old.
The elderly predator was proven to have indecently assaulted a seven-year-old boy over a period of four years in the early 1980s. The other three charges related to the indecent assault of a girl in the 1990s, who was just five-years-old when it started.
In the rest of the show, a man is arrested for sexually assaulting a pupil of his when he was 26 and she was 15. He denied it, but another teenage female pupil came forward and showed text messages that he sent to her. He later pleaded guilty to five counts of sexual activity with a child and was sentenced to two years imprisonment.
While it’s not known where Jones moved to, or what happened to him, in the nine years since his arrest in 2015, he would be aged around 85 by now.
You can watch episodes of the show on catch-up here, or catch a rerun of Season 5 Episode 2 at 11pm on Thursday (April 4) on 4Seven.
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