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Evening Standard
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Anahita Hossein-Pour

Priest faces life imprisonment over third child sex offences conviction

Sentencing for Ifor Whittaker was adjourned at Hove Crown Court on Tuesday (Alamy/PA) -

A former Church of England vicar could face life imprisonment as he is set to be sentenced for a third time for child sex offences.

Ifor Whittaker, 80, admitted rape and gross indecency of a young boy in the vestry of St John The Baptist Church in Sedlescombe, East Sussex, in the 1990s, where he served as a priest at the time under the name Colin Pritchard.

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