UNITED KINGDOM
Telegraph and Argus

By Claire Armstrong, T&A Reporter.

A Roman Catholic priest in Bradford has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a teenage girl.

William Finnegan, 59, had revealed in his trial that he had secretly got married in 1999, despite having taken a vow of celibacy.

He was standing trial accused of forcefully kissing a girl, 17, and touching her bottom on Easter Sunday last year while he was serving as a priest at St Clare’s RC Church in Fagley.

The jury of nine women and three men today found him guilty, by a majority of 11 to one.