A FORMER priest linked to at least 32 complaints and suspicions of sex abuse and who was branded a “a serial abuser of children” by the Murphy Report has written to a British newspaper claiming he deserves a second chance.

A former Catholic priest exposed as a serial child sex abuser today claimed he posed no “threat or danger to children”.

A leading bookmaker was robbed of tens of thousands of pounds by a masked gang as he left the Cheltenham Festival, it emerged today.