A COPTHORNE man who had already been charged with sex offences has now been charged with further offences - including the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl.
Andrew Hocking, 57, from Gorse Close, was charged in November last year with offences relating to alleged indecent images of children between 2009 and 2011, and also with sexual offences against a girl in Alveston, in Avon, more than 36 years ago.
These were four offences of indecent assault against a girl known to him, who was then aged...
