UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
Church of England vicar walks free from court after using secret cameras to spy on three girls and a woman over TEN YEARS
By Simon Tomlinson
A Church of England vicar walked free from court today after admitting using secret cameras to spy on and film intimate pictures of three girls and a woman.
Reverend Richard Lee, 49, was handed an eight-month jail term, suspended for two years, at Bristol Crown Court after admitting eight counts of voyeurism and 18 counts of making indecent images.
The offending took place over a ten-year period, in Weston-super-Mare where he was a priest in the diocese of Bath and Wells, and also in Gillingham, Kent.
Judge Neil Ford, QC, said: ‘I have agonised about my public duty in this case. While sentences of imprisonment must be imposed, they can be suspended.’
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