Overview

• Ruben has been charged with cruelty after allegedly slipping sedative-laced sweets to campers at Stathern Lodge between July 25 and 29.
• Eight boys aged eight to eleven and one adult were hospitalized as a precaution after consuming the sweets, and all were later discharged.
• He was arrested at a pub near Nottingham on Monday night and appeared before Leicester magistrates on August 2, where he declined to enter a plea.
• The court remanded him in custody, and he is due back for a preliminary hearing on August 29.
• The Independent Office for Police Conduct is investigating whether Leicestershire Police delayed or mishandled the initial response.