UNITED KINGDOM
International Business Times
By DOMINIC GOVER
November 04, 2013
A convicted paedophile has been forced to quit his job as a senior manager at Santander, the Spanish banking group.
Former priest Stephen Brooks led an executive team at the bank and even judged its award for “responsible business of the year”.
Brooks, 59, was managing director of Santander’s UK corporate banking healthcare team. He helped business customers access cash tied up in assets and provided bank funding for growth.
He rose through the ranks of Europe’s biggest retail banking institution despite holding convictions for 19 sex attacks on young boys during the 1980s and 1990s.
Brooks was sentenced to four years in jail for the offences which he carried out for seven years until 1994 in Swansea, while he was a priest at St Paul’s Church in Sketty.
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