UNITED KINGDOM
Birmingham Mail

by Ben Hurst, Birmingham Mail
Mar 10 2012

A PAEDOPHILE Staffordshire priest has been branded “shameless” by a judge and jailed for 22 years for a campaign of sexual abuse of young boys.

Alexander Bede Walsh, from Abbots Bromley, was convicted last month of 21 sexual offences, spanning a period of 18 years.

A ten-day trial at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard that the Catholic clergyman used his “revered” status to prey on his victims, abusing boys in Coventry, Staffordshire and Warwickshire. The abuse, described to the court as “serial and predatory”, took place between 1975 and 1993.