David Tudor

A former Church of England priest who groomed and sexually abused a 15-year-old girl has received a second lifetime ban from ministry.

David Tudor exploited his roles as a school chaplain, RE teacher and church youth leader in Surrey.

A church tribunal found he repeatedly sexually assaulted the girl between April and September 1984, when he was 29.

The girl had turned to Tudor for guidance and support, but the tribunal found he subjected her to a sustained course of grooming and sexual misconduct.

The tribunal described his misconduct as “egregious and of the utmost seriousness”. Tudor had already received a lifetime ministry ban in October 2024 after admitting sexually abusing two young other girls between 1982 and 1989.