Retired Priest Kevin Mcgarahan Convicted of Historic Assault

By Paul Wilkinson
Church Times
May 13, 2016

https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2016/13-may/news/uk/retired-priest-kevin-mcgarahan-convicted-of-historic-assault

A RETIRED priest was convicted this week of indecently assaulting a teenage girl more than 20 years ago.

The case against the Revd Kevin McGarahan, who is now 64, came to light only in 2014, when the safeguarding officer for Hereford diocese discovered old files relating to the incident.

They showed that Mr McGarahan, who was then at Woodside Church, in Telford, had attacked the 15-year-old at his home in 1995. But it was not until 1998 that her mother told church officials. ...