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By Linda Fort
Brian Spence, former vicar of St John the Baptist Church in Crowthorne and St Mark’s Church in Englefield, is facing nine counts of indecent assault involving four girls under 16
A 74-year-old retired vicar 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 Brian 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.
Elisabeth Bussey-Jones, prosecuting, told Reading Crown court yesterday (Mon) how the first girl remembered an incident because it was on a young family member’s birthday in the mid 90s.
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