(Fr Sean Gough was charged with 'intimidating service users' | ADF)
Police charged a Catholic priest after he held up a sign with the words “praying for free speech” outside a closed abortion facility in Birmingham.
The Crown Prosecution Service later threw out the charges against Fr Sean Gough but warned him they could be revived at any moment.
Fr Gough, an assistant priest serving parishes in Wolverhampton and Staffordshire, was standing outside the British Pregnancy Advisory Services clinic in Station Road when invited to be interviewed at a police station on suspicion that he was infringing the terms of a Public Spaces Protection Order, or buffer zone, imposed around the centre in November by Birmingham City Council.
