Retired Priest Faces Child Indecent Assault Charges

Mid Sussex Times
May 9, 2012

http://www.midsussextimes.co.uk/news/local/retired-priest-faces-child-indecent-assault-charges-1-3820189

A former priest at St Johns Church, Burgess Hill faces charges of indecent assault against children alleged to have happened up to 25 years ago.

Child protection detectives in West Sussex have charged retired Church of England priest Keith Wilkie Denford, 77, now of Broad Reach Mews, Shoreham, West Sussex.

He and Michael Mytton, 68, of South Road, East Chiltington, near Plumpton Green, East Sussex will appear on bail at Mid-Sussex Magistrates court on May 22.

Denford has been charged with three indecent assaults on a boy then under 16, two in or near Shoreham, and one in or near Cuckfield on dates between June 1987 and January1990, and has also been charged with one indecent assault on another boy then aged under 16 in or near Cuckfield on dates between January 1987 and December 1990.

Mytton has been charged with one offence of aiding and abetting Denford in the alleged Cuckfield assault on the first of the two boys referred to.

The two men had been arrested on November 3last year on suspicion of sexual offences and were released on police bail later the same day. They were charged on the authority of the Crown Prosecution Service when they answered to their bail at Crawley police station on Tuesday.