Vicar who spied on naked woman and girls faces defrocking after judge spares him from jail

UNITED KINGDOM
This is Bristol

Geoff Bennett

A “WICKED” priest who filmed a naked woman and children faces being defrocked after avoiding jail.

Richard Lee spied on his victims while he was the vicar of St Augustine’s Church in Locking and St Mary’s Church in Hutton, near Weston-super-Mare, as well as during an earlier placement.

When one of his victims raised the alarm police found he had some 454 indecent images of children.

Lee, 49, pleaded guilty to eight charges of voyeurism and 18 charges of making indecent photographs of a child last month.

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