UNITED KINGDOM
Bognor Regis Observer

THE BISHOP of Chichester has welcomed the sentencing of a priest for historic sex offences against young boys.

Keith Wilkie Denford, 78, was jailed for 18 months for the offences which took place between 19 and 27 years ago.

The priest, from Broad Reach Mews, Shoreham, was sentenced on Thursday, May 9, at Hove Crown Court after being convicted of two indecent assaults on a boy then under 16, in or near Shoreham, and one indecent assault on another boy also aged under 16 and also in or near Shoreham, on dates between June 1987 and January 1990.

He was found not guilty of a third charge of indecent assault against the first boy after a three-week trial, also at hove, on Friday, April 5.

Another man, Michael Mytton, 69, of South Road, East Chiltington, East Sussex, was sentenced to a total of nine…