BARKINGSIDE: Retired priest rearrested after fresh child abuse allegations

UNITED KINGDOM
Guardian

By Joe Curtis

A former priest bailed on suspicion of historic child sex abuse cases has been rearrested over four fresh allegations.

Canon Gordon Rideout, 73, of Eastbourne, was arrested and bailed in March on suspicion of abusing nine young people in areas including Barkingside.

The alleged assaults are meant to have taken place between 1965 and 1972 and the retired Anglican priest was rearrested yesterday (April 16) over allegations of four different sexual abuse cases from the same period that have now come to light.

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