UNITED KINGDOM
Somerset County Gazette
PAEDOPHILE priest the Rev David Roberts has been sacked and banned for life from officiating by the Church of England.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has been informed of the decision announced last week by the Bishop of Bath and Wells.
Roberts, 68, was suspended as priest-in-charge at St John’s Church, in Park Street, Taunton, after his victim reported the historic offences to the police.
Roberts, of Henley Road, Taunton, was later jailed for 12 years at Taunton Crown Court in December after he pleaded guilty to five charges of sexual assault in the early 1980s against a boy aged 13 to 15.
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