WALES
Wales Online
BY TYLER MEARS
A Roman Catholic priest arrested on suspicion of historical child sexual abuse died on the day he was due to report to police.
An inquest held at Aberdare Coroner’s Court on Wednesday heard how Father Ernest Sands, 67, was found hanged at his home in Hirnant, Oswestry, on April 11.
Father Sands was arrested last year on suspicion of sexually abusing five boys aged between 11 and 15. The allegations related to him serving as a Catholic priest in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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