Former British Olympic athletics coach Jose Vicente Leiva-Modahl has appeared in court docket after being accused of kid intercourse offences.
Leiva-Modahl, 65 – who was beforehand married to former Olympic middle-distance runner Diane Modahl – is going through 19 separate costs together with sexual assault of a kid, rape and controlling and coercive behaviour.
Leiva-Modahl, who’s also referred to as Vicente Modahl, appeared from custody at Manchester Magistrates’ Courtroom on Tuesday for a 15-minute listening to through which no pleas had been indicated.
District decide Richard Jepson despatched the case to Manchester Crown Courtroom, telling Leiva-Modahl that among the allegations had been too severe to be handled on the magistrates’ court docket.
Leiva-Modahl was granted conditional bail forward of a plea and trial preparation listening to on 18 November.
Amongst his bail circumstances had been to reside at an deal with within the Warrington space, to abide by an digital monitoring curfew from 21:00 to 07:00 and to not contact witnesses within the case.
He was additionally ordered to give up his Spanish passport and to not have any unsupervised contact with anybody underneath the age of 18.
Leiva-Modahl has been suspended by governing physique UK Athletics, the court docket additionally heard.