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Original URL: http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/08/24/david_atherton_bail/

Dabs founder released on £10m bail

Checks in at The Priory

By Team Register

Posted in IT Channel, 24th August 2008 10:28 GMT

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David Atherton, the founder of Dabs.com who is charged with attempted rape and drugs offences, has been released on £10m bail surety.

Atherton, 50, is checking into a Priory clinic in Cheshire, "where he has been ordered to follow an in-patient programme for one month", the Bolton News reports [1]. He will then have to report to the clinic each week.

Atherton was charged last week with attempted rape, threats to kill, false imprisonment and possession of a class A drug. The offences were alleged to have taken place in Bolton last Sunday.

His case goes to Bolton Crown Court on October 31. ®