‘Father Brown’ vicar faces jail for assaulting 14-year-old

A vicar who served in the idyllic parish where the TV show ‘Father Brown’ was filmed molested a girl more than 40 years ago after buying her records, a court heard. Cotswold clergyman Grahame Humphries, 71, stepped down as vicar of Blockley and Bourton-on-the-Hill in October 2012. Married Humphries indecently assaulted the 14-year-old girl in the early ’70s while serving as curate at St Michael’s Church in Wandsworth, south west London. Humphries was ordained more than 40 years ago and…

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