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May 14, 2014 08:50 By Natasha Adkins
A woman, who said she was 11 when a retired vicar sexually assaulted her, gave evidence yesterday to Reading Crown Court.
Brian Spence, 74, faces nine counts of indecent assault involving four girls aged under 16.
All the offences are alleged to have taken place between 1995 and November, 1999 when Spence – known then as Father Brian – was vicar of St John the Baptist Church in Crowthorne.
He was more recently priest-in-charge at St Mark’s Church in Englefield before he retired.
The jury watched a police interview recorded in 2012, in which the woman, now 30, described the incident as “a burden which I have carried with me since I was 11”
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