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	My Sex in Chapel House with Pair of Vice Girls Exclusive: Angelika Priest Cruised Red-Light Area for Hookers Father Gerry Confesses By Janice Burns Glasgow Daily Record [Scotland] May 5, 2007 http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/news/tm_headline=my-sex-in-chapel-house-with-pair-of-vice-girls --&method=full&objectid=19048463&siteid=66633-name_page.html The fallen priest at the centre of the Angelika Kluk murder trial has confessed to picking up two prostitutes and taking them back to his chapel for sex. Shamed Father Gerry Nugent told how he cruised Glasgow's red-light district for vice girls and engaged in "sexual fumbling" with them in the chapel house next to his church. Father Nugent also admitted a string of illicit affairs with married women in his flock. The 63-year-old priest was exposed as a drunk and a womaniser in the wake of Angelika's horrific murder. In his dramatic evidence at the trial of killer Peter Tobin, Father Nugent claimed to have had a sexual relationship with the 23-year-old Polish student, as well as bedding a woman who played guitar at his church. Tobin's lawyer, Donald Findlay QC, told the jury and judge Lord Menzies that the priest was somehow involved in Angelika's death. The scandal of the court case forced Father Nugent to quit his Glasgow parish and left him a broken man. It seemed he could not sink any lower. But last night, in a shocking new revelation, he confessed to the Daily Record that he twice used the services of street hookers. Father Nugent said: "Yes, there were times when I used prostitutes. "God, it was about November 2005 when I was back drinking. I was on a real low at the time. "I took prostitutes back to the church on two separate occasions. It was because I was drinking. I didn't know what I wanted, do you know what I mean? "I never even had sex with them. It was more of a sexual fumble. It was not a regular thing - it was a 'two-off', if you want to put it that way. "When I did it, I did it out of drink. I was out of control." Father Nugent said he first found himself in the red-light district after getting in his car to visit a fellow priest at Glasgow's St Andrew's Cathedral. But the trip ended in disaster when police pulled him over for drink-driving. It should have been a short and straightforward journey from Father Nugent's church, St Patrick's in Anderston, to the cathedral. Instead, however, he found himself cruising the streets where the city's drug-addicted vice girls ply their trade. Father Nugent said: "I didn't pick anyone up that night. I drove around and thought, 'What the hell am I doing here?' "Then I was caught by the police. I was over the limit but I don't know by how much. I was done with drink-driving and banned for a year. "But now I've got my car back and I'm driving again, thank God." Father Nugent said his life took a turn for the worse in late 2005, when his doctor warned him that he might have multiple sclerosis or Parkinson's disease. He claimed the news sent him into a spiral of heavy drinking - and drove him back to the red-light district. FATHER Nugent claimed: "I panicked about the MS thing. I went on and off the drink. That was when I went with the prostitutes. "When I was drinking heavily, I drank Bacardi. But after I got the results that I might have MS, I took vodka. "I thought, 'I'm not drinking because my normal drink is Bacardi.' It was crazy. "I went and picked the prostitutes up in my car and I presume I must have dropped them off again. I don't know who these girls are. "I didn't have sexual intercourse with them. I think I just wanted them for company. "If I was looking for just sexual satisfaction, I would probably have just done it myself or something. "I just lost control, you know." Father Nugent first "lost control" at the age of 28, when he embarked on an affair with a 30-year-old family friend. It was the start of a long series of sexual liaisons, many of them with married parishioners. He went to confession after each affair and asked God for forgiveness. Father Nugent admitted: "I am lustful and I struggle with my sexuality." But he insisted he was not entirely to blame for repeatedly breaking his vow of celibacy. The priest said: "I hope this doesn't sound arrogant but there were times women would come on to me - not that I was coming on to them. "There was the odd handful of women who basically liked me. I had plenty of friends who were married and I had my moments ofweakness. "I didn't have an agenda with these women. It was spur-of-the moment lustfulness. "To be fair to them, they probably wanted something from me but I wasn't particularly aware of it. And because I was weak, I got caught up with it. "They probably just wanted sex. "Sometimes I felt pressurised but I'm not making excuses for my behaviour. "There were times when these women had an agenda and my weakness was that I gave in to that. "Can I put it this way? I've very seldom had sex but I've had quite a few sexual relationships. "I really tried my best to realise it was wrong. "Probably one of the things I didn't understand about my life was what celibacy was about. I obviously had failures in this regard." Father Nugent added: "Until I was 28, I had no sexual feelings whatsoever. I liked women and people. I just got torn into my parish. "I was trained not to think of myself as a human being and I never thought for one minute that someone would like me as a person. I just thought they would accept me as a priest. "When my first sexual relationship happened, I felt I was led astray. I didn't know anything about sex at that time. "The person I had the relationship with is still alive, so I want to be careful. "I had no thought of doing anything but I think this woman had plans that didn't enter my mind. "Maybe I should have made a decision then and left the priesthood but I liked doing what I was doing and I realised my limitations." Father Nugent continued to get involved with women after the first affair. He said: "I have had several relationships but it takes two to tango. There were occasions when I wasn't wanting anything but somebody else was wanting something from me. That sounds like an excuse but I am prepared to accept I have a weakness for women. "Maybe some women find priests irresistible or a challenge but it wasn't as if I was on the prowl or anything like that. "Whenever I did sin, I went to my confessor, my priest. I confessed and tried to lift myself up. "All through my life I have struggled with my sexuality. I have had sexual relationships with women and I have done what a Catholic does and gone to confession."
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