UNITED KINGDOM
Christian Today
Carey Lodge CHRISTIAN TODAY JOURNALIST 22 August 2016
Soper allegedly committed the offences at St Benedict’s School in Ealing, west London, where he was a teacher.
A former Catholic priest accused of abusing five boys in the 1970s and 1980s has been returned to the UK and arrested after skipping bail in 2011.
Father Laurence Soper, 72, was arrested on suspicion of nine charges including indecent assault, gross indecency and buggery.
He was arrested in Kosovo in May under a European Arrest Warrant but a Kosovan judge blocked his return to the UK because Soper’s alleged crimes had occurred too long ago.
However, UK police announced on Sunday that the priest had been arrested at Luton Airport “on suspicion of nine offences of sexual assault committed over a period from 1972 to 1986”.
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