Former Catholic Priest Trials Trial over Sex Assault on Boys

This is Staffordshire
January 23, 2012

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Former Roman Catholic priest Alexander Bede Walsh is set to go on trial today after denying sexually assaulting seven boys over a 20-year period.

The 57-year-old has previously entered not guilty pleas to all 25 charges put to him.

Bede Walsh

He denied 23 charges of indecently assaulting a male and two further charges of sexual assault.

It is alleged he indecently assaulted boys aged between seven and 16 on dates between July 1974 and December 1994.

Walsh, of Church Lane, Abbots Bromley, near Rugeley, served as a priest in Cheadle for 14 years until 1999. He was a governor and chaplain at Painsley Catholic High School in the town.

He also served in Coventry and Coleshill.

He is due to trial at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court today.