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Wirral Globe

Monday 18th June 2012 in News By Lynda Roughley

A WIRRAL catholic priest with an “unhealthy interest in adolescent boys” who repeatedly sexually abused an underage boy has been jailed for five years.

Father Peter Hooper, parish priest at St Luke’s The Physician in Bebington, was caught having oral sex with the boy in the diocese house where Hooper lived.

Liverpool Crown Court heard the offences came to light after he was abusing the boy while a social gathering at the house in Church Road was winding down on May 15 this year.

Robert Jansen, prosecuting, said that a man called Matthew Howard, who was living at the address, as he had for some years, walked past the kitchen window, and Hooper and the boy performing a sex act on eachother.