Priest guilty of abusing sisters

A priest has been convicted by a court in Co Tyrone of sexually abusing three sisters over the course of a decade.

A priest has been convicted by a court in Co Tyrone of sexually abusing three sisters over the course of a decade.

Fr Eugene Lewis (76), was found guilty by a jury at Omagh Crown Court guilty of 11 counts of indecently assaulting the three Co Fermanagh sisters separately and on differing dates between August 1963 and September 1973.

Lewis, the former provincial superior of the Society of Missionaries of Africa, based in Dublin, had denied the charges.

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