Church Bins Shamed Priest's Worldy Goods, by David Taylor, The Sunday Mail [Scotland], July 15, 2007

Church Bins Shamed Priest's Worldy Goods
Priest to Have Name Removed from Boards outside Church.

By David Taylor
The Sunday Mail [Scotland]
July 15, 2007

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Items belonging to a disgraced priest are piled high in a skip at the church where Polish student Angelika Kluk was brutally murdered.

Soon Father Gerry Nugent's name will also disappear from the boards outside St Patrick's Church in Glasgow.

Workmen have gutted the parish house in the city's Anderston in preparation for its reopening next month.

The large skip was filled to the brim with pieces of wood, twisted metal and plasterboard.

Furniture including chairs and a set of drawers were also dumped.

The church, which has undergone extensive renovation, will reopen under the leadership of a new priest, Canon Robert Hill.

He is presently dean of St Charles' Church in the city's west end.

A Catholic Church spokesman said: "Most major work is completed, and we are just waiting for some internal walls to dry out after they were replastered. Once that is done there will be some cosmetic work done before it is opened again to the public."

Handyman Peter Tobin, 60, was sentenced to life for the rape and murder of 23-year-old Angelika, who had been lodging at the church.

Alcoholic Father Nugent, 63, resigned his post before giving evidence at the murder trial. He claimed to have had a sexual relationship with the student and another parishioner.

And he later confessed to taking prostitutes to the church house.

Nugent was convicted of contempt of court following Tobin's trial for failing to give straight answers and was given 100 hours' community service.