Judge: Coventry Priest Found Guilty of Sex Abuse against Boys Facing Long Jail Sentence

Coventry Telegraph
February 7, 2012

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A ROMAN Catholic priest who used his "revered" status to wage an 18-year campaign of abuse against vulnerable boys is facing a lengthy jail term after being convicted of 21 sexual offences.

Alexander Bede Walsh, who targeted eight victims in Coventry, Staffordshire and Warwickshire between 1975 and 1993, was found guilty of two serious sexual offences and 19 counts of indecent assault by a jury at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court.

Adjourning sentence on Walsh this morning, Judge Paul Glenn told the 58-year-old paedophile that a long prison sentence was inevitable.