Teen duped into marriage by fake bishop

A judge has accused a man who describes himself as a bishop of making a fool of a 17-year-old by pretending that he had married him and taking money from him under false pretences.

At the Children’s Court in Ennis yesterday, Judge Patrick Durcan demanded that gardaí investigate Michael Cox and the circumstances around the marriage of the minor.

Judge Durcan told the court “it is disgraceful that a young man like this is duped into believing that he is married by someone who parades around and calls himself a bishop, but is not a bishop”.