Vicar suspected of murdering baby boy

Shocked parishioners have said prayers at a church where their vicar is under arrest for murdering a baby.

Reverend Jim Percival, aged 64, the vicar of Holy Trinity CE Church in Freckleton, Lancashire, was arrested earlier this week with his wife Susan, 64, and daughter Ruth, 28, after the suspicious death of a baby boy.

Mr Percival and his daughter are being questioned on suspicion of murder and conspiracy to conceal the birth of a child.

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