Blue badge con of minister

the lines of apologising if his actions have caused offence, more like a politician’s statement than genuine remorse.” Reid lavished cash on Gillian Leddy, 55, who lived with him and her two daughters Veronica, 30, and Alice, 28, at the presbytery of St Cuthbert’s Church in Chester-le-Street, Co Durham. He told police he “fell in love” with Gillian and she and her daughters were “like the family he never had”. He bought the younger women four houses and treated them to expensive holidays, meals and cars. The priest admitted fraud when he appeared at Durham LETTER Disgraced Reid crown court last week. He was ordered to pay back the £50,000. His fate is now in the hands of Bishop Seamus Cunningham, of Hexham and Newcastle.

THE Catholic priest who stole £50,000 of church funds after falling in love with his housekeeper has apologised to his flock.

Father John Reid, who escaped jail, sent parishioners a letter telling them he had “sinned”.

And he later revealed he does not know what his future holds after being given an 18-month suspended sentence for fraud. The 69-year-old said: “Being a priest is a lifetime commitment, and I am still a priest. My future now is in the hands of the bishop. This has already been dealt with. I have written to the parishioners and that letter was read out in a public meeting.”

But one churchgoer said: “It was along A CLERGYMAN could face further action after being found guilty of using the disability parking badge of a dead woman.

The sentencing of Anglican minister William Haymaker, 62 – who provides pastoral care to the terminally ill – was delayed at Hove Trial Centre, East Sussex, for more investigations. Haymaker, of Bexhill, was convicted of possessing an article for use in a fraud at an earlier trial

The council said he used a blue badge to park in a disabled bay. The owner of the badge had died in October, 2015.

The case was adjourned to May 26.