HomeNewsChester priest pleads guilty to child porn charges

Chester priest pleads guilty to child porn charges

Published on

spot_img

A Merseyside vicar has plead guilty in the Liverpool Crown Court to 16 counts of possessing child pornography.

On 3 Jan 2014 the Rev. Ian Hughes, (46) former priest in charge of St. Luke’s Poulton and St. Paul’s Seacombe in Wirral in the Diocese of Chester admitted to possessing over 8000 images and films  depicting child pornography and bestiality. Following his arrest on 22 May 2013 the Diocese of Chester suspended Hughes from his benefice and he was stood down as governor of the Wallasey School Park Primary.

Judge David Aubrey QC adjourned sentencing until 28 January 2014 pending the submission of a pre-sentencing report. However he told Hughes he could face imprisonment as “all sentencing options were open to the court.”

First printed in The Church of England Newspaper.

Latest articles

Anglican Province of Melanesia launches university in the Solomon Islands

https://youtu.be/CMHe8fY2x1w?si=XEAYgCpdtQP6d4H5 The Anglican Church of Melanesia, which serves Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia, officially...

Statement from the Bishops of the Anglican Network in Europe following the passing of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill and the...

This week (June 16th-20th 2025) the Westminster Parliament has voted effectively to permit babies...

Where’s the strong spiritual leader we need to be found? Not in the Church of England

WE LIVE in times of great moral confusion. Old certainties and beliefs have been...

Parliament’s culture of death and the Church’s troubling silence

IN THE 1980s, as a pre-med student at Trinity College Dublin, I attended a...

“Rise and Rave” at Cape Town cathedral sparks criticism

The dean of St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town has been criticized for allowing...

More like this

Anglican Province of Melanesia launches university in the Solomon Islands

https://youtu.be/CMHe8fY2x1w?si=XEAYgCpdtQP6d4H5 The Anglican Church of Melanesia, which serves Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia, officially...

Statement from the Bishops of the Anglican Network in Europe following the passing of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill and the...

This week (June 16th-20th 2025) the Westminster Parliament has voted effectively to permit babies...

Where’s the strong spiritual leader we need to be found? Not in the Church of England

WE LIVE in times of great moral confusion. Old certainties and beliefs have been...