UNITED KINGDOM
Shoreham Herald

Published on Tuesday 8 May 2012

CHILD protection detectives in West Sussex have today, (Tuesday, May 8), charged two men, including a priest who lives in Shoreham and worked in Tarring, with sexual offences.

Keith Willkie Denford, 72, a priest, of Broad Reach Mews, Shoreham, and Michael Mytton, 68, of South Road, East Chiltington, will appear on bail at Mid-Sussex Magistrates court on Tuesday, May 22.

Denford has been charged with three indecent assaults on boys under 16.

Two of these allegedly took place “in or near” Shoreham and one took place “in or near Cuckfield” between June, 1987, and January, 1990.

Denford, who was previously based at a church in Tarring, has also been charged with one indecent assault on another boy, aged under 16, “in or near Cuckfield” January, 1987 and December, 1990.