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Bill Carney was linked to a suspected paedophile ring but his death leaves unanswered questions, writes Maeve Sheehan

Maeve Sheehan
PUBLISHED
13/09/2015

The odious former priest Bill Carney died in the Midlands Prison last Saturday week, apparently without a word of remorse or apology to his many victims.

He was awaiting trial on 34 charges of sexually abusing eight boys and two girls over 20 years up to 1989, having pleaded neither guilty nor not guilty, his day of reckoning delayed because of his bad health.

According to his anonymous friend of 35 years who contacted Joe Duffy’s radio show last week, Carney was suffering. He had been beaten up by other prisoners and looked unwell, with swollen legs from a kidney complaint.

These were the last days of a serial paedophile who spent decades of his life as a priest stalking children’s homes…