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The trial of a man accused of sex crimes has been put off again.
Philip Pickett, 63, from Lyneham, in West Oxfordshire, was due to appear at the Old Bailey in London yesterday but his trial date has been moved to January 15.
Pickett, who is on bail, is charged with a number of offences including three rapes and eight indecent assaults.
The nine alleged female victims include a girl who was 14 at the time of the alleged crime. His trial was previously delayed from October until this month.
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