Ifor Whittaker, 80, was condemned as a ‘predatory paedophile’ when he was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of eight years in November last year.
The sick former Church of England priest had baptised the little boy who he went on to abuse in the vestry of St John the Baptist Church in Sedlescombe, East Sussex, in the 1990s while working under the name Colin Pritchard.
Whittaker was already serving a 16-year sentence for abusing a boy between 1987 and 1991, and was jailed for five years in 2008 for abusing two children between 1979 and 1983.
He died in prison on March 31 at HMP Littlehey, a Category C prison in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, for men who have been convicted of sexual offences.
