UNITED KINGDOM
The Bolton News
Exclusive By Joanne Rowe, Reporter
A CHOIRMASTER has been jailed after admitting abusing young children in the vestry at a Farnworth church.
Peter Williams was in charge of two choirs and was organist at St James’ CE Church, Farnworth, in the 1970s, Bolton Crown Court heard.
Rachel White, prosecuting, told how he preyed on an 11-year-old girl and a nine-year-old boy, using his position of trust in the church to sexually assault them.
Judge Timothy Clayson sentenced 60-year-old Williams to 28 months in prison adding that, had he committed his crimes more recently than the 1970s, he would have been facing a much longer sentenc
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