NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News
The sentencing of a paedophile priest was adjourned after a psychiatrist raised concerns over his mental health.
Wheelchair bound 71-year-old Michael Joseph Steele was due to be sentenced by Belfast Crown Court after he pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a boy and a girl between 30 and 40 years ago last month.
Steele admitted five counts of indecent assault and two of gross indecency committed against the boy between January 1967 and January 1971.
He admitted three counts of indecently assaulting the girl on dates between August 1979 and July 1983.
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