A SECOND man has been charged in relation to the historical child abuse inquiry in Jersey.

Claude James Donnelly (68) appeared in the Magistrate’s Court this morning charged with the rape of a child and other indecent offences during the 1970s. He was released on bail.

Known as Jimmy, and believed to have been a former cab driver, he was charged with raping a 12-year-old girl at an address in Roseville Street some time between March 1971 and March 1972; with indecently assaulting a girl aged between 12 and 15 between March 1971 and March 1974; and with procuring the commission by a girl aged between 12 and 15 of an act of gross indecency on him between March 1971 and March 1974.

Donnelly, of Route des Mielles, St Brelade, was born in Bishop’s Castle in the UK.

Police say that although the charges are in connection with the inquiry into historical child abuse, they are not directly connected to Haut de la Garenne.

The police have also said that there could be more arrests in the child abuse inquiry in the next week,