Former priest convicted of 17 sex assaults faces retrial on five remaining charges

Former priest convicted of 17 sex assaults faces retrial on five remaining charges

A FORMER priest convicted of indecent assaults against nine women will face a retrial on five outstanding sexual offence charges.

Former priest faces retrial on sex assault charges

A former priest convicted of abusing members of a “cult-like” church group will face a second trial next year. Chris Brain, 68, ran the influential Nine O’Clock Service (NOS) in Sheffield in the 1980s and 1990s. Last month, he was found guilty of 17 indecent assaults against nine women. A jury at Inner London Crown Court cleared him of 15 further counts of indecent assault, but could not reach a verdict on four counts of indecent assault and one…