Retired priest charged with historic sex offences

UNITED KINGDOM
The Gazette

A RETIRED priest has been accused of committing historical sex offences against a boy while he was curate at Crediton Parish Church.

Vickery House, 68, who worked at the church from 1969 to 1976, has been charged with a catalogue of offences following an 18-month police inquiry.

House, a former Church of England priest, faces eight charges of indecent assault on a then-aged 15-year-old boy and five males aged 17 to 34 between 1970 and 1986.

He was charged following the Sussex Police inquiry with offences which were allegedly committed in East Sussex and Devon.

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