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A man who denies committing a rape in Wigan will only now be tried late next year.

Gregory Padin, 44, of Liverpool Road North, Sefton, had been due to stand trial at Bolton Crown Court this month on a single charge of raping a woman in her 20s in Bickershaw in February 2022.

But he was re-released on conditional bail after it was decided that there was only now time in the busy court schedules for the trial to take place on November 18 2024.

Year-long delay to trial of man accused of committing rape in Wigan