Well-known solicitor and former school governor, Stuart Nuttall, who has denied committing numerous child sex offences, will stand trial next month.
A pre-trial hearing involving the 54-year-old, of Stonelands Park in Ryde, took place at the Isle of Wight Crown Court earlier this week (Thursday).
The commercial lawyer, who previously served as a governor of Ryde Academy and as a director of the IW Youth Trust, pleaded not guilty to a total of 12 charges back in 2024.
Those charges were:
- 2x Adult attempt to engage in sexual communication with a child
- 1x Attempt to cause/incite a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity – no penetration
- 1x Offender 18 or over attempt to cause a child aged 13 to 15 to watch/look at an image of sexual activity
- 1x Offender 18 or over attempt to cause a child under 13 to watch/look at an image of sexual activity
- 3x Make indecent photograph/pseudo-photograph of a child, namely 206x Category A, 486x Category B and 168x Category C still/moving indecent images of children
- 3x Distribute an indecent photograph / pseudo-photograph of a child, namely 11x Category A, 31x Category B and 12x Category C still/moving indecent images of children
- 1x Possess extreme pornographic image/images portraying an act of intercourse/oral sex with a dead/alive animal, namely the penis of a horse penetrating a female’s vagina
On behalf of Nuttall, his solicitor Alexia Nicol confirmed her client’s not guilty pleas.
Mr Nuttall will appear before the Isle of Wight Crown Court for an anticipated 4-day trial on 26th March.
Bring back hanging? Or stick him in prison with the rest of the sicko scum bags.
It’s really quite amazing how people of any power or authority manage to hide behind their titles for so long and so easily
That’s what wealth does for you.
SHOCKING and UNACCEPTABLE whoever they are!
He had an extremely high opinion of himself, and a low opinion of others, whilst a student at primary, middle and high school in Ryde. Recollections of a person who was in the same school year as him.
Oooh is that why Joy Ballard is under the spotlight I wonder.
Worth a “Google” just saying!
Well known EX solicitor. He was struck off last year, and not because of these current alleged offences.
I’m not surprised that he’s going for a jury trial…he genuinely thinks he can obfuscate the circumstances, and in doing so re-traumatises the children concerned. THAT in itself should be the biggest crime.
Change your plea you bloody coward.