Canon Gordon Rideout rearrested after new child abuse allegations

UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News

A retired Anglican priest who was bailed on suspicion of child sex abuse 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 between 1965 and 1972.

He has been rearrested over a further four alleged sexual assaults in the same period.

The alleged assaults took place in Sussex, Hampshire and London.

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