UNITED KINGDOM
The Guardian
Press Association
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 6 March 2012
Two retired Church of England priests have been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing young men and children.
A 73-year-old man was arrested at his home near Eastbourne, East Sussex, on suspicion of sexual assaults committed against nine young people in Crawley, West Sussex, Barkingside, north-east London, and Middle Wallop, Hampshire, between 1965 and 1972.
A 70-year-old man was also arrested at his home in Eastbourne on suspicion of sexual assaults against three young men in West Sussex during the late 1970s and mid-1980s.
The men, named by sources as Canon Gordon Rideout and former parish priest Robert Coles, were arrested following a six-month investigation by a team of specialist Sussex police child protection detectives.
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