Exclusive Priest, 46, Charmed His Conquests in Chic Candle-Lit Flat with Wine and Iced Bacardi
Bachelor Pad Where Father Flash Had Sex with His Lovers
By Janice Burns
Glasgow Daily Record [Scotland]
March 7, 2006
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THE contents of the secret love-nest where "Father Flash" Roddy MacNeil staged kinky sex romps wih a string of willing women, are revealed today.
The disgraced priest's flat is crammed full of ladies' toiletries, including hair-removal products, deodorant and a pink toothbrush.
There is also a size 12 black dress, a handbag and women's underwear.
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The bed is decorated with fluffy cushions and surrounded by candles.
The bookshelves are packed with racy novels - including one about demonically possessed nuns caught in a web of sexual repression.
There are also holiday brochures for the paradise isle of Mauritius.
Balding MacNeil, 46, charmed his conquests with fine wines and Bacardi cooled by heart-shaped ice cubes.
But his latest flame, student Jennifer Gilbert - who at 22 is less than half his age - was "disgusted" when he begged her to play kinky sex games.
In yesterday's Record, she told how six-times-a-night stud MacNeil had groomed her for sex since she was a teenager.
But last night, she said: "I was horrified when he produced handcuffs and asked if he could tie me up and blindfold me.
"I was gobsmacked and told him to get lost. He never mentioned it again after that. Thank goodness. He is a pervert."
Jennifer said MacNeil moved her into the ?200,000 two-bedroom apartment last year so he could have her all to himself.
He bought the Glasgow city centre pad in July 2004 and later gifted it to a relative.
But he regularly stays at the property and all the bills are in his name.
Raven-haired Jennifer dropped out of her BA Honours course at Strathclyde University and moved in to the priest's flat in September last year.
MacNeil persuaded her to leave her family home and live rent-free in the flat.
The next day, he turned up at the flat and vowed to leave the priesthood, proposed to her and gave her a wedding band.
But Jennifer left just three days later after she made a shocking discovery.
She said: "Roddy had just returned from a holiday with his priest friends when I agreed to move into the flat.
"I had only been there a few days when I found a packet of condoms in his suitcase - and two were missing. I confronted him about it and he made a ridiculous excuse that he and the other priests were playing 'water balloons'.
"I found it hard to believe and became very suspicious that he was bringing other women back to the flat."
Jennifer told MacNeil the relationship wasn't working and moved back with her teacher parents Evelyn and Stephen.
But he won her back with sweet talk and she kept seeing him in secret.
Jennifer only broke up with MacNeil when they were on holiday on Madeira and she discovered he had fathered a child.
She also found text messages from four other women declaring their love for him.
Jennifer believes the stress of finding out about her relationship with family friend MacNeil contributed to her dad's death.
The Record broke the story of how MacNeil was suspended from the priesthood last year after claims of an "inappropriate relationship". He had to quit his Western Isles parish, Our Lady of the Sea, on Barra. His flock were told that he had "taken time out to reflect on his future".
Jennifer's mum Evelyn reported him to his bishop after finding out about the fling.
Later, we revealed that he had got his first cousin Hilda Robertson pregnant while carrying on his affair with Jennifer.
MacNeil had a meeting with the Bishop of Argyll and the Isles, Ian Murray, last month but he refused to resign and vowed to fight to save his priesthood.
The Catholic Church are also investigating the island parish's finances.
MacNeil has expensive tastes and always wears the best that money can buy.
He shops for silk shirts at Gant designer store in Glasgow.
MacNeil gets his hair cut by Alan Edwards in Glasgow's Merchant City, splashes out on Molton Brown products - and his favourite colognes are Miracle by Lancome and Amen by Thierry Mugler.
He is also a regular at top eateries L'Ariosto and Rogano, where he treats his women to slap-up meals and champagne.
Evelyn, 54, hit out after hearing how MacNeil seduced her daughter at the flat.
She said: "This makes a farce of his whole priesthood. He is a disgrace to the Catholic Church and not fit be a priest.
"He has been leading a double life. He has no conscience and obviously needs help."
Jennifer is ashamed of her affair with her parents' close friend and family priest.
She said: "I cannot say how sorry I am for the hurt that I have caused my mum and dad. I have been so stupid and naive."
MacNeil bombarded his former lover with text messages last night as she exposed him as a sex pest in the Record.
Hours before we broke the story of their affair, he was still trying to win her back with a string of affectionate messages. But MacNeil turned nasty when he found out that Jennifer had branded him a "sexual predator".
He accused her of cashing in on their affair by selling her story, although, in fact, she didn't receive a penny.
In a barrage of texts, MacNeil wrote: "What is the price of betrayal these days? Hope ur conscience lets u sleep."
Other messages read: "Why r u doing this?" and "Hope ur money brings u happiness."
MacNeil plagued Jennifer with phone calls from his father's home in South Uist.
She has already told him on numerous occasions that she wants nothing more do with him.
Jennifer, of Rouken Glen, Glasgow, said: "Hopefully now, he will get the message that I want him out of my life for good.
"I feel stupid that I was sucked in by his lies and deceit. I feel like a victim because he twisted me round his finger.
"He manipulated, used and abused me. He strung me along, telling me he loved me and wanted to marry and have children with me.
"But all the time, it was all a sick game to ruin my life and destroy my family."
'I was horrified when he produced a pair of handcuffs and asked if he could blindfold me'
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