UNITED KINGDOM
ITV
RONKE PHILLIPS ITV LONDON SENIOR CORRESPONDENT
The trial of a Catholic priest accusing of abusing young boys at a children’s home in Hounslow has begun at Southwark Crown Court today.
Father Tony McSweeney denies sexually abusing youngsters at Grafton Close Children’s home in Hanworth in the 70’s & 80’s
The prosecutor, Sarah Plaschkes QC alleges that on various occasions McSweeney took indecent photographs of teenage boys, and that in 1998 his cleaner found a video in his home. When he was arrested indecent images were found on his laptop.
The court heard the Priest was a friend of John Stingemore, the man in charge of Grafton Close, a residential home for vulnerable children at the time.
The prosecution allege McSweeney abused three boys at the home.
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