UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
A British former Catholic priest wanted over child sex abuse allegations has been arrested in Kosovo, local police sources say.
Lawrence Soper was being hunted over sex offences allegedly carried out when he was abbot of Catholic Ealing Abbey in London from 1991 to 2000.
He was arrested in 2010 and bailed, but failed to return to a London police station in March 2011.
A European Arrest Warrant was issued for him in 2012.
Police in Kosovo’s capital Pristina confirmed to the BBC local reports that he had been arrested in Pec, in the west of the country, on Thursday.
A senior official, speaking anonymously, told the BBC that the extradition process was under way to return him to the UK.
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