PORTSMOUTH (ENGLAND)
Portsmouth News
August 2, 2019
A PRIEST has been struck off for life for having a sexual relationship with a married parishioner who turned to him for help.
Former Emsworth-with-Warblington parish rector Simon Sayers admitted ‘betraying his calling’ in a letter to a private tribunal that eventually found him guilty of inappropriate conduct this week.
It comes after he was previously banned from his ministry for five years in 2016 over two sexual incidents with a 16-year-old school girl.
The tribunal, which Mr Sayers did not attend, was told he began a sexual relationship with the parishwoman when she approached him for pastoral support.
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