A TEENAGER appeared before magistrates in County Durham today (Wednesday, February 27) charged with two sexual assaults.

Ian Graham Pritchard, 19, who appeared by video link from Holme House Prison in Stockton-on-Tees, denies indecently touching two children between November 26 and November 28 last year in Darlington.

A former resident of Middleton-St-George, near Darlington, Mr Pritchard, of Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, was remanded in custody until March 27 when he will appear for a case management hearing.