NEWCASTLE (ENGLAND)
Newcastle Chronicle

February 3, 2018

By Rob Kennedy

James Leigh was living with a priest in Newcastle when he told a decoy profile on Grindr he liked ‘sweaty teen lads’ and arranged a meeting for sex

A trainee priest is behind bars after sending a picture of his genitals to what he thought was a 14-year-old boy, telling him he liked “sweaty teen lads” and turning up hoping to meet him for sex.

James Leigh was living with a Catholic priest in Newcastle as he trained to become a man of the cloth himself when he fell into illegal temptation online.

A court heard he made contact with a profile on Grindr which purported to be that of a 14-year-old boy but had in fact been set up by paedophile hunters.

Despite being told of the age of the fake boy, Leigh sent a…