Sussex priest and organist charged over boy sex assaults

UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News

A Church of England priest and an organist have been charged with sexually abusing two young boys in the late 1980s.

Father Wilkie Denford, 76, who is semi-retired and from Shoreham, and Michael Mytton, a 68-year-old organist from near Lewes, were arrested in November.

The pair are accused of abusing the boys at a number of locations in West Sussex between 1987 and 1990.

The men are due to appear at Mid Sussex Magistrates’ Court on 22 May.

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