UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
He is the shamed priest whose colourful private life propelled him into the public eye.
Now Father Roddy MacNeil has come to prominence once again – thanks to a row over a house gifted to him by Princess Diana’s mother.
Father MacNeil, who was suspended from his parish after getting his cousin pregnant, is battling a £150,000 court action brought by his brother-in-law John Gray over his father’s estate.
Mr Gray told a court that the 55-year-old cleric was given the house by Frances Shand Kydd in 2000.
But the house, then valued at £89,000, was put in his father Donald MacNeil’s name because priests cannot own property, Mr Gray told Lochmaddy Sheriff Court on the Scottish island of North Uist,
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