UNITED KINGDOM
Liverpool Echo
BY NEIL DOCKING
25 AUG 2017
A paedophile ex-vicar who wrote a twisted child sex abuse fantasy featuring himself was today jailed for 20 months.
Former Church of England reverend Paul Battersby downloaded 1,730 indecent images between November 2014 and January 2017.
Police also seized a shoebox full of children’s clothes when they raided the 68-year-old’s flat in Old Hall Street, Liverpool city centre.
Liverpool Crown Court heard they then discovered disturbing fantasy literature on the persistent sex offender’s computer equipment.
Iain Criddle, prosecuting, said: “Perhaps equally worrying, other items were recovered.
“From the defendant’s computer was recovered a fantasy story, which appears to have been penned by him, regarding child abuse.
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