UNITED KINGDOM
Wirral Globe
by Craig Manning, Chief Reporter
A WIRRAL vicar jailed after he was caught downloading images and videos of child sex abuse has been kicked out of the Church Of England.
Rev Ian Hughes was jailed for 12 months in January after pleading guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to 15 charges of making indecent images and movies, one of possessing 8,227 indecent images and one of possessing an extreme pornographic image.
He has since been released from prison.
His secret double life was revealed during Merseyside police investigations into internet users exchanging indecent images of children by peer-to-peer file sharing software.
His internet address was linked to a large quantity of such images and police raided his home at the vicarage in Brougham Road, Wallasey, last year.
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