UNITED KINGDOM
Eastbourne Herald
Published on Wednesday 7 March 2012
WELL known former priest Gordon Rideout was one of two men arrested in Eastbourne yesterday morning in connection with a sex abuse inquiry.
Seventy-three-year-old Mr Rideout, a former priest at All Saints Church and former school governor, is still being quizzed by detectives on suspicion of sexually assaulting young people in Sussex and London in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Former priest Robert Coles, 70, was also arrested at his home in Upperton Road on Tuesday morning on suspicion of sexual assaults against three young men in Sussex during the late 1970s and mid-1980s.
The arrests follow a six month long investigation into allegations of sex abuse by a team of specialist child protection detectives in Sussex.
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