UNITED KINGDOM
Eastbourne Herald
Published on Friday 14 December 2012
A retired Church of England priest from Eastbourne has been committed for Crown Court trial charged with sexual offences against three teenage boys.
Robert Coles, 71, of Upperton Road, Eastbourne, appeared at Chichester Crown Court today charged with sexual offences against the boys in West Sussex and elsewhere during the late 1970s and early 1990s.
He pleaded not guilty to three offences of buggery on one of the boys then aged between 15 and 16 at a location in Chichester between 1982 and 1984, and was committed for trial at a Crown Court in Sussex yet to be notified on June 10, 2013. He continues to be on court bail.
The prosecution will consider by the end of January whether to seek trial on four alleged offences of indecent assault – two against the victim of buggery and one each against two other victims.
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