UNITED KINGDOM
Leicester Mercury
A 73-year-old retired vicar has been jailed for 13 years after being found guilty of 27 sexual assault offences against four victims following a trial at Guildford Crown Court.
He was also given an indefinite sexual harm prevention order.
Roger Wakely, of Exeter, Devon, a former vicar of Gaulby in Leicestershire, was convicted of 25 counts of indecent assault on a boy under the age of 16 years and two counts of attempted sexual assault on a boy under the age of 16 years between the 1960s and early 1980s.
Six of the offences took place in Surrey, with the other offences taking place in London and Leicester.
Surrey Police launched an investigation in December 2013 after one of the victims came forward and reported that he had been sexually abused by Wakely between 1978 and 1981 while he was at a pupil at a school in Surrey.
Wakely was a teacher at the school and was also the school pastor. He sought out the victim by asking him to come to his office on the pretext of talking about his coursework.
Subsequent inquiries led police to identify two further victims, who were targeted by Wakely between 1964 and 1972 while he was a teacher at a school in west London.
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