Trial date set for Wigan borough teen accused of kidnap and blackmail
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A teenager is due to stand trial later spring after denying charges of kidnap, false imprisonment, assault and blackmail.
The 16-year-old from Tyldesley, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared before a Bolton Crown Court judge having already pleaded not guilty before magistrates to charges of actual bodily harm, abduction and illegally detaining a named male on August 18 and also blackmail of a named woman on the same date.
A March 22 case management hearing comes next with the trial date set for April 8.