UNITED KINGDOM
Hull Daily Mail
A former Beverley priest has been jailed for 28 years for sexually abusing vulnerable children.
Roy Lovatt, 71, former priest of St John of Beverley Church, committed the offences in the 1970s and 80s when he was a housemaster at Thorp Arch Grange school on the outskirts of Wetherby.
Lovatt, recently of Queen Street, Redcar, was found guilty after a trial at Leeds Crown Court of four charges of indecent assault and five of buggery against two boys.
Lovatt, who was described by prosecutors as a predatory sex offender, also admitted 23 charges of indecent assault and two of gross indecency on three other boys and a girl who were not resident at the school.
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