UNITED KINGDOM
Eastbourne Herald
Published on Friday 9 March 2012
GORDON RIDEOUT, a former rural dean who spent 25 years as a vicar at All Saints in Carlisle Road, is suspected of sexually assaulting nine young people between 1965 and 1972 in Crawley, London and Hampshire.
It was also revealed this week that several allegations were made to police in 1972 against Mr Rideout and again in 2001, but although he was arrested, there was not sufficient evidence to justify criminal proceedings.
Mr Rideout conducted services at All Saints Church until 2010.
He was also chaplain at Moira House Girls School until 2003 and chair of governors at Bishop Bell School.
In the 1960s he was a chaplain at two Barnado’s homes in London.
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