A Catholic monk wanted over child sex abuse allegations has been arrested in Kosovo after five years on the run.
Laurence Soper went into hiding after being investigated for alleged sex offences at Catholic Ealing Abbey in London from 1991 to 2000.
Following allegations by a former pupil, Soper was arrested in Rome and questioned by appointment by the Metropolitan Police in September 2010.
However, investigators allowed him to retain his passport and did not take a picture, asking him through his solicitor to return to London from Italy where he worked.
Instead, after leaving St Anselmo Church on March 4, 2011, apparently to fly to Heathrow, Soper skipped bail and vanished.
He has now been apprehended in Pec, Kosovo after a European Arrest Warrant was issued for him in 2012.
The extradition process to return him to the UK is reportedly underway. (more...)
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