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Priest jailed for a host of sexual assaults on vulnerable victims
By Katie Mansfield
Retired Christopher Bosworth, 57, was arrested at his home in Wales by detectives from Essex Police in September 2012 following sexual assault allegations dating back to the 1980s. Bosworth, of Cae Greynor in Tycroes, was jailed for historical sexual offences committed in Essex and north-west London. The four victims in the Essex Police investigation, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were in the Wickford area in Essex and the Willesden and Kingsbury areas in London in the 1980s and 1990s. Bosworth was a psychiatric nurse in Kingsbury where he committed offences against two of the male victims. He was also Catholic priest in Willesden at the time of offending. The former priest denied the charges but a jury at Basildon Crown Court found him guilty following a three week trial. He has been jailed for 14 years and six months. Ds Danny Walker of the Sexual Offences Investigation Team based in Rayleigh, said: "I would like to pay tribute to the four male victims who showed great courage in coming forward and giving evidence against the defendant who had taken advantage of his position in order to sexually abuse them when they were vulnerable. "The sentence received accurately reflects the seriousness of the offences and the impact it has had on the victims.” The former priest denied the charges but a jury at Basildon Crown Court found him guilty following a three week trial. He was convicted of three counts of indecently assaulting a man; one count of indecently assaulting a man; two counts of conspiring to sexually assault a man; one count of sexually assaulting a man and one count of perverting the course of justice.
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