KOSOVO
Christian Today

James Macintyre 09 August 2016

A British former Catholic priest wanted on historic child sex abuse charges should not be extradited to the UK because the crimes were committed too long ago, a court in Kosovo ruled on Monday.

Laurence Soper was detained in the western town of Peja – where he had lived for abour five years under the name Andrew Charles Kingston – in May on an international arrest warrant. He is accused of sex offences while he was a teacher in Britain. Soper allegedly committed the offences at St Benedict’s School in Ealing, where he was a teacher in the 1970s and 1980s.

The former abbot, now in his 70s, reportedly jumped bail in 2011 and a European arrest warrant was issued in 2012.

“British citizen Andrew Charles Kingston Soper should not be extradited because offences he has been charged with exceeded the…