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Claire Hayhurst

Former bishop jailed for more than four years for sexually abusing boy

Anthony Pierce was bishop of Swansea and Brecon between 1999 and 2008 (South Wales Police/PA) -

A former bishop who sexually abused a boy he christened as a baby has been jailed for four years and one month.

Anthony Pierce, 84, was bishop of Swansea and Brecon between 1999 and 2008, though the offences date from the late 1980s when he was a parish priest in West Cross, Swansea.

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