Sussex priest arrested by police investigating offences against a child

UNITED KINGDOM
ITV

The 56-year-old man, who does not currently have permission to officiate, was detained this morning at his home in Jervis Avenue, Eastbourne, East Sussex.

Sussex Police said he was held on “suspicion of acts of indecency, indecent assault and cruelty against a boy known to him” who was then aged 12 and 13 in 1988 and 1989.

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