SCOTLAND
Daily Record

BY MARK MCGIVERN

A PERVERT priest who has never faced a court has denied paying an alleged victim £10,000 to keep quiet.

Father Paul Moore admits giving the man a cheque for £10,000 but insists it was a loan. He said: “It wasn’t hush money.”

Ayrshire priest Moore, now 79, confessed to his bishop in the 1990s that he had abused children over several years.

But prosecutors decided not to put him on trial.

Instead, he was sent to a centre in Canada for priests with psychological problems, then allowed to retire to a house in Largs bought by the Catholic Church.