UNITED KINGDOM
ITV
A number of parishioners in Emsworth and Warblington are supporting their vicar who has admitted having ‘sexual contact’ with a teenager more than 20 years ago.
Simon Sayers, of the Warblington with Emsworth parish, has resigned after church officials ruled he had engaged in conduct unbecoming a clergy person and abused his position of trust in the 1990s. He has been banned from ministry for five years.
The Metropolitan Police arrested the vicar in January 2015 after it was informed of alleged offences that took place in Islington when he was in parish ministry there in 1995. The police investigation led the Church of England to suspend Mr Sayers.
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