UNITED KINGDOM
Eastbourne Herald
Published on Thursday 8 March 2012
TWO FORMER priests arrested at their homes in Eastbourne this week on suspicion of child sex abuse have been released on police bail.
Former All Saints vicar Gordon Rideout, 73, was arrested on Tuesday morning at his home in Filching Close in relation to allegedly sexually assaulting young people in Sussex and London in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Fellow former priest Robert Coles, 70, of Upperton Road, was also arrested on the same morning on suspicion of sexual assaults against three young men in Sussex during the late 1970s and mid-1980s.
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