A MAN is due to appear at Liverpool Crown Court today (Friday, March 6) accused of a string of historic sex offences against a girl under 16, including rape.

Craig Cotham, 27, from Doulton Street in Newtown faces four charges alleged to have been carried out between 2000 and 2004 at two locations in St Helens, when he was aged in his mid teens.

After appearing at St Helens Magistrates’ Court he was granted conditional bail.