Sheffield vicar beat woman for nearly a decade, jury finds

Hilary Alflatt, who has dementia and was judged unfit to stand trial, treated his victim like a slave, court told

A retired vicar accused of sadism repeatedly beat a woman with a bamboo stick for nearly a decade, a crown court jury has found.

Hilary Alflatt, 87, had been accused of treating his victim like a slave and forcing her to take a vow of obedience when he worked at a church in Sheffield during the 1980s. He was said to have punished her for looking him in the eye, making her prostate herself before him, kiss his feet and call him master"'