UNITED KINGDOM
Bristol Post
By Tom Morris
A 76-YEAR-OLD Bristol bishop faces being sent to jail after admitting stealing £180,000 from his church.
Former magistrate Gerald Edmund, right, of Lansdown Road, Kingswood, pleaded guilty to swindling the huge sum from Bethel United Church of Jesus Christ Apostolic.
Edmund, who was bishop at Bethel Apostolic Church in St George between 1962 and 2002, pleaded guilty to two counts of theft and one of fraud by false representation between July 2010 and February 2011.
The married father made the pleas when he appeared before magistrates in Birmingham last month.
Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.