A MAN who is due to stand trial accused of raping two underage boys has been released on bail.

Craig Shaw, 38, has been freed to live with his mother and step father in Bradford before standing trial at Swindon Crown Court on Monday January 8.

Shaw, who gave the court his address as an apartment block in Benidorm, on Spain's Costa Blanca, will have to comply with a number of conditions.

He must surrender his passport and not apply for travel documents, abide by a night time curfew and not leave the address unless with his mum or step dad.

He is also barred from having contact with children under 16 or prosecution witnesses, and abide by the conditions of other orders.

Shaw pleaded not guilty to a string of allegations relating to the boys, aged between 12 and 16, when he appeared before a judge in January.

He is said to have started abusing the first child in autumn of 2007, when the boy was aged 12.

It is said the alleged offending continued to March 2009, when the complainant was 14, and included a number of incidents of rape.

Shaw is also accused of raping the boy's older brother on three occasions in the year up to October 2009.

The final set of charges relate to him twice having sexual activity with a 15-year-old boy in the second half of 2008.

Shaw is accused of six counts of rape, 11 of sexual activity with a child, one sexual assault, and two of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

He is also said to have failed to comply with the conditions of the notification order by not living at an address on Abbey Walk South, Halifax, between 2010 and 2014.

And he is also charged with breaching a sexual offences prevention order, imposed by magistrates in Swindon in March 2009, by contacting the first complainant when he was under the age of 16.

Judge Tim Mousley QC adjourned the case Monday, January 8, and released Shaw on conditional bail until then.