UNITED KINGDOM
Southwark News
22 December 2014 By Court Reporter
A controversial African preacher who claimed to be able to give infertile couples ‘miracle babies’ was cleared of raping a follower on Thursday.
Self-styled ‘Archbishop of Peckham’ Gilbert Deya, 61, vowed to continue in his mission to “preach the gospel of Jesus Christ” after the court cleared him of two counts of rape, two of sexual assault, attempted rape and assault by beating after nearly five hours of deliberations.
Deya said: “The court has today rightly ruled that I am an innocent man” after he stood accused of sexually assaulting one of his followers during an alleged campaign of abuse spanning nearly a decade.
The alleged victim came to Britain from Sierra Leone in 2003 and visited Deya’s church in Peckham in 2006.
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