LONDON (ENGLAND)
Get West London
December 22, 2017
Andrew Soper was handed the lengthy sentence on Thursday (December 21), after a jury had found him guilty of a string of offences at St Benedict’s School
A Roman Catholic priest has been jailed for 18 years for molesting children at a church school in Ealing .
The former abbot and headmaster Andrew Soper, 74, was handed the sentence on Thursday (December 21) at the Old Bailey after being found guilty following a 10-week trial earlier in the month .
He had been extradited to face 19 charges of indecent assault and buggery against 10 former pupils after fleeing the country with £182,000 from the Vatican bank in a bid to avoid responsibility for the abuse at fee-paying St Benedict’s School, in Eaton Rise .
Some of his victims were at court to hear his sentencing, with their statements read out detailing the effects the abuse had on their lives.
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