Jail term extended for former Keighley rail volunteer

UNITED KINGDOM
Keighley News

Rapist vicar Peter Hedge must spend an extra five years behind bars after two more of his victims spoke out, bringing the number of boys he abused to eight.

Hedge, who is former vicar of Holy Trinity Church in Queensbury, was locked up for 14 years in 2009 for what the judge described as the “wicked and cynical” rape and sexual abuse of boys in his pastoral care.

Now 51, Hedge – who spent many years working as a volunteer on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway – was brought from prison to Bradford Crown Court yesterday to be sentenced for sexually abusing two more boys.

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