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Sussex priest sentenced for sex offences against young boys Dean Adams
aged 10 at the time of the alleged offences, in West Sussex and elsewhere, between 1978 and 1979. Coles had pleaded not guilty to all these offences.
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Robert Coles has been sentenced
A RETIRED Church of England priest is this week behind bars after being sentenced to eight years for sex offences against young boys in Chichester. Robert Coles, 71, of Upperton Road, Eastbourne, appeared at Brighton Crown Court last Thursday (14 February), and was sentenced to a total of eight years for sexual offences against young boys. He had been awaiting trial due to commence on 10 June over seven alleged offences of sexual assault - three of buggery of one boy then aged between 15 and 16 at a location in Chichester between 1982 and 1984, two of Indecent Assault of the same boy between 1982 and 1983, and one each of Indecent Assault of two other boys, who were
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Sussex Police and the three victims, the Crown Prosecution Service had decided not to proceed with the seven outstanding charges. The trial set for 10 June will therefore not take place and His Honour Judge Anthony ...police emphasise that directed that the seven charges would lay on the court file. there is nothing to suggest Coles was sentenced to a total of eight that any children are years imprisonment last week for the 11 offences to which he had pleaded guilty in currently at risk December. At a hearing on 14 December last year at For the offence of buggery he was Chichester Crown Court, Coles had pleaded sentenced to five years and for the four guilty to 11 offences, ie; one offence of buggery indecent assaults against the same victim he and four indecent assaults against the first was sentenced to 2 and a half years for each victim, and to three indecent assaults against offence, all to run concurrently, and also to each of the other two victims, during the same run concurrently with the sentence for the respective periods. buggery offence. At today’s hearing, prosecutor Ryan He was sentenced to 18 months for each of Richter advised the court that after the three indecent assaults against the... consideration, including consultation with Continued on page 3
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