Table of convicted perpetrators of child sexual abuse in the Diocese of Chichester
Name | Role | Nature of the offence | Date of conviction/caution | Sentence received |
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Reverend Noel Moore | Parish priest and chaplain | Indecent assault x 8 | 1951 | Unknown |
Sexual activity with a child x 1 | September 2010 | Unknown | ||
Reverend Roy Cotton | Parish priest | Indecent exposure | 15 March 1954 | 12 months’ probation |
Mr Michael Mark Mytton | Organist | Gross indecency x 2 | 29 April 1981 | 2 years’ probation |
Indecent assault x 3 | 9 May 2013 | 9 months’ imprisonment (suspended) | ||
Mr Michael Walsh | Organist, music teacher and lay vicar |
Indecent assault x 5. A further 8 similar offences are taken into consideration |
13 November 1990 | 5 years’ imprisonment |
Mr Terence Banks | Cathedral Steward | 32 offences | 2 May 2001 | 16 years’ imprisonment |
Mr David Bowring | Teacher at the Prebendal School | Indecent assault x 6 | May 2003 | 3 years’ imprisonment |
Reverend Colin Pritchard | Incumbent | Indecent assault x 7 | 28 July 2008 | 5 years’ imprisonment |
Inciting a child to commit an act of gross indecency x 2, gross indecency x 2, buggery x 2, conspiring with Roy Cotton to commit acts of indecency with a child |
22 February 2018 | 16 years’ imprisonment | ||
Reverend Anthony John Sergeant | Team Vicar | Possessing and making indecent images of children x 17 | 2012 | Unknown |
Reverend Robert Coles | Vicar | Buggery x 1 Indecent assault x 7 |
14 December 2012 | 8 years’ imprisonment |
Sexual assault x 2 | 12 June 2015 | 16 months’ imprisonment (to run consecutively to previous sentence) | ||
Reverend Keith Wilkie Denford | Rector | Indecent assault x 3 | April 2013 | 18 months’ imprisonment |
Canon Gordon Rideout | Assistant curate, chaplain, Archdeacon of Lewes and Hastings | 36 offences | 20 May 2013 | 10 years’ imprisonment |
Indecent assault | 20 December 2016 | 9 months’ imprisonment (to run consecutively to previous sentence) | ||
Mr Duncan Hanner | Organist | Sexual activity with a child x 6 | August 2013 | 15 months’ imprisonment |
Mr David Gutteridge | Secretary of the Chichester Cathedral Choristers Association. Teacher at The Prebendal School (Chichester Cathedral’s Choir School) | Indecent assault x 2 | February 2015 | 18 months’ imprisonment |
Reverend Christopher Howarth | Priest | Causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity x 4, sexual activity with a child x 12, sexual assault x 4, sexual assault of a child under 13 x 4, taking indecent photographs of a child x 2, causing a child to watch a sexual act x 2 | 17 July 2015 | 10 years’ imprisonment followed by a 4‐year period of extended licence |
Reverend Vickery House | Vicar | Indecent assault x 5 | 27 October 2015 | 6.5 years’ imprisonment |
Mr Timothy Dumbrell | Voluntary church youth worker | Causing or inciting a child aged between 13 and 15 to engage in sexual activity x 5 | 14 November 2015 | 3 years’ imprisonment |
Reverend Peter Keeley-Pannett | Non-stipendiary deacon | Making indecent images of children x 2, attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity x 1, inciting a child under 16 to engage in sexual activity x 2, causing a boy aged between 13 and 15 to watch sexual activity x 2 | 19 November 2015 | 32 months’ imprisonment |
Reverend Jonathan Graves | Parish priest | Indecent assault x 7, indecency with a child x 2, cruelty to a child x 4 | 14 September 2017 | 12 years’ imprisonment |
Reverend Giles White | Lay vicar | Possessing indecent images of children | Unknown | Unknown |
Reverend Stephen Richard Talbot | Chaplain | Making indecent images of children x 14, possessing indecent images of children x 4, perverting the course of justice x 1 | 27 February 2015 | 15 months’ imprisonment |