Dr Borthwick has been deemed unfit to stand trial so a trial of facts is being held at Reading Crown CourtDr Robin Borthwick, 78, is accused of indecently assaulting the boy repeatedly in the 1970s and 80s in west Berkshire, including in a GP surgery.Dr Borthwick has been deemed unfit to stand trial due to his health so a trial of facts is being held.
Father Bowe said: "...he asked could he have a word. He wanted to tell me that the police had been to see him and had told him that there was an alleged incident of sexual abuse by him many years before."I said what you've told me I will have to tell safeguarding and possibly the police. He told me the police have already been.
"He didn't give a date and it was way back before he was married and before he became a Roman Catholic." Father Bowe told the jury Dr Borthwick told him he had "done it once and he highly regretted it" and that he knew it was "morally wrong and legally wrong".