Jeremy Dowling Tells Jury He Did Not Sexually Abuse Boy While Working As North Cornwall Lay Preacher

West Briton
September 1, 2016

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Jeremy Dowling has been giving evidence in his defence

Jeremy Dowling, the former Diocese of Truro spokesman, has told a Truro Crown Court jury he did not sexually abuse a boy while working as a lay preacher in North Cornwall 40 years ago. Dowling said he was currently serving a seven-year prison sentence for sexually abusing five boys in the 1960s, offences committed while he was a schoolteacher, which he admitted and was dealt with by the court last year.

But he categorically denied further charges concerning a man, now in his fifties, who claims Dowling also abused him, including on one occasion at a church.

St Eval church (left) and St Michael's, Budehaven