Norfolk Priest Arrested in Child Sex Probe Re-Bailed

Norwich Evening News
May 2, 2013

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Father Tony McSweeney.

A Norwich priest arrested in a child sex probe has been re-bailed.

Father Tony McSweeney was arrested in February by detectives probing allegations of child sex abuse centring on a guesthouse and a children’s home in London.

He was bailed until April and has now been bailed until July.

The 66-year-old, from St George’s Church in the north of Norwich, was arrested on suspicion of sexual offences.

Fr McSweeney, who has been a priest for 29 years, was appointed a director at Notre Dame High School in April last year but resigned after his arrest.

The allegations, dating from the early 1980s, are linked to the former Elm Guest House and the now closed Grafton Close children’s home in Barnes, south west London.