UNITED KINGDOM
This is Kent
By Matthew Young matthew.young@courier.co.uk
A FORMER Tunbridge Wells catholic priest who preyed on boys in the 1980s has avoided jail after being found guilty of molesting an altar boy at another church.
Malcolm McLennan, 69, committed sex crimes against church boys in 1985 and 1986, when he was priest at St Augustine’s Roman Catholic Church in Crescent Road.
In 2009 the pervert was jailed for the offences for 18 months – but has now avoided a further sentence after admitting he molested another boy in a church in Chatham, also in the 1980s.
He was handed a three-year community order at Maidstone Crown Court on Friday.
After the sentence, the victim, now in his 30s, said: “I am devastated. Justice has not been served.”
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