UNITED KINGDOM
Telegraph and Argus
Jenifer Loweth
A CHURCH of England vicar has been convicted by a jury of sexually abusing a boy when he was a head teacher in Bradford.
The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Roger Thomas QC, warned David Fletcher he will “almost inevitably go into custody” for indecently assaulting the child in the late 1980s.
Fletcher, 63, whose ministry includes 12 churches in East Yorkshire, was found guilty of two of the eight charges against him by a majority verdict of 11-1.
The jury at Bradford Crown Court cleared him of six further allegations of indecent assault made by the same complainant.
He was bailed to return to the court for sentence on Monday, March 6.
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