UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
March 12, 2020
A Church of England priest and former teacher jailed for sexually abusing two young boys has died in hospital.
The Reverend Christopher Howarth, who was an inmate at HMP Lewes, died on Tuesday.
The 72-year-old was convicted in 2015 of 26 offences against the boys who he met through his work at Holy Trinity Church near Uckfield, East Sussex.
The Prison Service said his death would be investigated by the Prison and Probation Ombudsman.
The “appalling abuse” had a “devastating effect” on his victims, the Crown Prosecution Service’s Jaswant Narwal said when he was sentenced.
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