Trial for the ‘perverted puppeteer’

A photographer who once had his work exhibited alongside David Bailey and Lewis Carroll is to stand trial for historic sex abuse charges. Former children’s TV worker David Trainer, 63, is accused of assaulting seven youngsters as young as five, during the 1980s and 1990s. Trainer, who worked as a puppeteer on 1986 musical Little Shop of Horrors, appeared at Inner London Crown Court today (thurs) to deny four counts of indecent assault and six counts of indecency with a…