Priest assault trial

Title

Priest assault trial

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

22 Sep 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:03:15

Description

Tim Crook reports from the Old Bailey on the case of an eighty-year-old priest from Finsbury Park, who was robbed and beaten up in his own church by three youths. Judge Hayman praised Father Reginald Fuller who had a go at one of the raiders when he saw them kicking a colleague, Father Peter Lyons, in the face.

Contributors

Tim Crook; Reginald Fuller

Keywords

London; Crime; Violence; Adolescents; Clergy; Trials; Assault; Drug-related crime; Alcohol-related crime; Mugging; Finsbury Park; Reginald Fuller; Peter Lyons; John Butler; Alan Scott; Brenda Pyke; Substance abuse

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