UNITED KINGDOM
Isle of Wight County Press
By a County Press reporter
Friday, August 17, 2012
A FORMER priest has been charged with sex offences on the Isle of Wight dating back to the 1970s.
Robert Coles, 71, now of Upperton Road, Eastbourne, was yesterday (Thursday) charged with dozens of offences in the south of England.
They include eight offences of indecent assault on a boy aged between ten and 13 at locations in Broadbridge Heath in West Sussex, Devon, Cornwall and the Isle of Wight between 1978 and 1981.
Mr Coles, was arrested in March and was charged after police interview yesterday. He is due to appear at Chichester Magistrates’ Court on September 5.
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