CANBERRA (AUSTRALIA)
Canberra Times
February 1, 2019
By Nick Miller
An Anglican priest from Perth, Western Australia, has been extradited to Britain to face sex assault charges dating back to the 1970s and 80s.
Meirion Griffiths, 80, from Maddington in Perth, was charged on an extradition warrant issued by Westminster magistrates court in London in December 2016, Sussex police said.
The warrant alleges that he committed several indecent assaults against a girl then in her late teens in the mid-1970s, and several indecent assaults against a woman then in her mid-20s in 1982.
The offences allegedly took place in West Sussex. At the time of the alleged offences Griffiths was Church of England vicar of St Pancras in Chichester, police said in a statement issued on Thursday.
Chichester is a cathedral city near the English south coast, between Southampton and Brighton.
Griffiths arrived at Heathrow from Australia on Thursday in the custody of Sussex Police officers.
He appeared in court the same day, pleaded not guilty and was remanded in custody to appear at Portsmouth Crown Court on March 1, the police statement said.
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