East Sussex

Ifor Whittaker, 80, previously admitted rape and gross indecency of a boy in the vestry of St John The Baptist Church in Sedlescombe, East Sussex, in the 1990s.

The fourth European-inspired tree-throwing competition has taken place in Sussex, with people from all around the country descending on Catsfield, near Battle.

Ifor Whittaker, 80, was an Anglican vicar who went by the name of Father Colin Pritchard when the offences against a boy under the age of 14 occurred.