Former Bradford vicar admits sex assault

UNITED KINGDOM
Telegraph & Argus

A former Bradford vicar has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a teenage boy over a three-year period in the 1990s.

Peter Hedge yesterday admitted eight offences of indecent assault on a male, indecency with a child and a serious sexual offence, all involving one boy when he was aged 13 to 15.

He was remanded in custody at Bradford Crown Court to a date to be fixed.

Hedge, 50, who was vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Queensbury, spent many years working on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.

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