- An EFL assistant referee has reportedly been charged with a baby intercourse offence
- The official is being remanded in custody and can seem in court docket subsequent month
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An assistant referee for the English Soccer League has reportedly been charged with a baby intercourse offence.
Gareth Viccars is because of seem in court docket as he faces one cost of penetrative sexual exercise with a woman aged between 13 and 15.
Viccars, 46, has already appeared in Willesden Magistrates Court docket final week and is due in Snaresbrook Crown Court docket on March 3 the place a plea will probably be entered, based on Sky Sports News.
He’s being remanded in custody.
Mail Sport understands that Viccars has not officiated in any matches this marketing campaign.
‘As quickly because the allegations got here to mild, Mr Viccars was instantly suspended,’ a spokesperson for referees’ physique the PGMOL advised Mail Sport.
An assistant referee from the EFL has reportedly been charged with a baby intercourse offence (inventory picture)
Gareth Viccars will seem in Snaresbrook Crown Court docket on March 3 (inventory picture used)
‘Because the matter is the topic of an ongoing police investigation, we’re not able to remark any additional.’
In response to his profile on worldfootball.internet, Viccars has officiated within the Soccer League for the reason that 2018-19 season in addition to the FA Cup and the Carabao Cup.
Way back to the 2015-16 season, Viccars was officiating within the Premier League 2, which on the time was the under-21s league.
Mail Sport has contacted the FA for remark.
