Vicar admits to possessing more than 8,000 indecent images and videos of children

UNITED KINGDOM
Express

A DISGRACED vicar is facing jail after admitting to possessing thousands of pornographic images and videos of children – with one involving animals.

Reverend Ian Hughes, 46, admitted to 16 counts involving more than 8,000 pieces of material that police recovered from his home in Wallasey, Merseyside.

The evidence showed 6,000 images and movies were classed in the lowest category of seriousness, while 60 were put in category five, the most serious.

There were 1,500 images and videos that were categorised between two and four.

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