A PENSIONER has been accused of historic sex assaults against children.

David Warren, 70, of Queen Elizabeth Way, Colchester, is charged with two counts of indecent assault, two of gross indecency and one of inciting a girl under fourteen to commit gross indecency.

The alleged offences took place in the early 1980s.

Warren has been bailed to appear at Chelmsford Crown Court on June 9.