Pervert governor’s 5,000 child images

UNITED KINGDOM
Oxford Mail

A priest and former private school governor has received a suspended jail sentence after admitting making hundreds of indecent images of children.

Father Timothy Gardner, 42, pictured, was given an eight-month prison sentence suspended for two years at Southwark Crown Court yesterday.

He also received a five-year sexual offences prevention order and will be on the sex offender register for ten years. He is a former governor of Rye St Antony, the Catholic independent school for girls, in Pullen’s Lane, Oxford.

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