UNITED KINGDOM
Lancaster Guardian
A former Lancaster Cathedral canon who was jailed for sexually abusing a young man who had hopes of joining the priesthood will not have his sentence reviewed.
The Attorney General’s Office – the Government’s legal department – received a complaint that the one-year prison term given to Stephen Shield on December 13 was “unduly lenient”.
The 55-year-old was found guilty of three counts of indecent assault after a trial at Preston Crown Court.
But a spokeswoman for the department this week confirmed that the sentence would not be reviewed.
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