Catholic priest faces child sex abuse charges

A Catholic priest charged with a series of child abuse offences against schoolboys in Bury is going on trial.

John McCollough, 61, of Lymington Avenue, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, is charged with eight counts of indecent assault and four of gross indecency with children during the 1980s and 1990s.

The offences are alleged to have taken place while McCollough was an Anglican rector at Christ the King with Holy Trinity Church in Spring Street, Bury.

The alleged attacks spanned a six-year period while he was rector at the church.

He worked in Bury between 1985 and 1995 but left in 1997 to become a Catholic priest.

McCollough is believed to have retired from his post as a priest at St Vincent's Church in Dagenham.

The trial is at Bolton Crown Court.
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