A PENSIONER accused of indecently assaulting a teenage boy while teaching at a Crewe Sunday school has been cleared of all charges.

Anthony Finn, 81, had denied eight count of indecent assault allegedly spanning a four-year period between 1987 and 1991, while teaching Sunday school classes at West Street Baptist Church in Crewe.

The jury unanimously found Mr Finn, of Wybunbury Lane, Wybunbury, not guilty of five of the charges after three were dropped half-way through the trial.

Judge Stephen Clarke, addressing the jury after the verdicts were read out, said: “I think this case was a very difficult one to try, especially when you are dealing with events that go back 20 years-plus.”