UNITED KINGDOM
Mirror
22 AUG 2016
BY DAVID WILCOCK
Laurence Soper, 72, disappeared after failing to answer bail in March 2011 over allegation of sexual assault at St Benedict’s School in Ealing, west London.
A former Catholic monk who went on the run after being arrested over historic child sex abuse allegations was last night being quizzed by police after being returned to the UK.
Laurence Soper, 72, disappeared after failing to answer bail in March 2011 over allegation of sexual assault at St Benedict’s School in Ealing, west London.
Soper, who was abbot of Ealing Abbey in west London from 1991 to 2000, had been arrested in September 2010 after a man aged in his 40s made a complaint to police.
A European Arrest Warrant was issued for Soper in 2012, when police said they believed he had been living in Italy.
He was finally arrested in Kosovo in May this year. He had reportedly been living in the city of Pec for several years.
Scotland Yard last night said the former monastic leader had been flown back to the UK from the eastern European country.
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