Eastbourne’s Robert Coles bailed in sex abuse inquiry

UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News

A retired Church of England priest arrested in the Eastbourne area on suspicion of sexually abusing children has been bailed.

Former parish priest Robert Coles, 70, is suspected of sexually assaulting three young men in West Sussex in the late 1970s and mid-1980s.

Sussex Police said Canon Gordon Rideout remains in custody.

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