ENGLAND
Gazette (Teesside)
September 26, 2017
Former Roman Catholic priest Roy Lovatt, from Redcar, tried to get sentence cut :: Top judges told him he deserved every day of the sentence
A twisted paedophile from Redcar who preyed on young boys at a residential school deserved every day of his 28-year jail term, top judges today ruled.
Former ordained Roman Catholic priest Roy Lovatt, 72, subjected two boys to a string of sexual attacks while working as a housemaster at Thorp Arch Grange, near Wetherby.
During the same period in the 1970s and 1980s, he abused four other young children, three boys and a girl, leaving them badly traumatised.
Lovatt, of Queen Street, Redcar, was convicted of or admitted dozens of sex offences and was jailed for 28 years at Leeds Crown Court in February.
On Tuesday, he appealed against the sentence, but was told by senior judges that the term was richly deserved for the catalogue of offending.
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