Queen's organist jailed for sex attacks

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Queen's organist jailed for abuse


Rees-Williams preyed on his victims over a 14-year period

The Queen's former choirmaster has been jailed for five years and three months for a 14-year catalogue of child abuse. Jonathan Rees-Williams, 55, was convicted in June at Reading Crown Court of a string of assaults, including some carried out in churches.

Jurors heard Rees-Williams, of Bristol, preyed on children from the mid-1970s.

None of the assaults took place during his time at Windsor Castle, where he quit as organist and master of the choir at St George's Chapel in 2002.

Rees-Williams, described as an "outstanding musician", enjoyed a successful career in cathedrals, rising to work for the Queen at her Windsor estate in 1991. At his trial, five men and one women told of childhood abuse at his hands, in locations including a cathedral organ loft, a church crypt and on public transport.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/3596894.stm

[seemslikeadream]

1. Organist?

cathedral organ loft?

[mzmolly]

2. So he "preyed on children for 14 years" and he gets 5 years!

:wtf:

Societal priorities are sorely backward when a pedophile does less time then a fargen petty criminal. :puke:

[MaineDem]

3. Exactly

It doesn't make sense to me either.