UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
By Mark Daly
BBC Scotland Investigations Correspondent
The Crown Office has been criticised over its handling of the extradition of a former Catholic monk at the centre of a child sex abuse scandal.
Father Denis “Chrysostom” Alexander was one of several monks accused of abusing boys at the former Fort Augustus Abbey boarding school in the Highlands.
BBC Scotland confronted the former monk in Australia during a 2013 documentary.
In December last year, the Crown Office announced plans to bring him back from his native Australia to face trial.
But on Monday, 80-year-old Father Alexander, who denies the abuse claims, said he was not aware of any extradition plans, fuelling fears the process was stalling.
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