Porn charges

A FORMER vicar jailed for possessing thousands of child porn images was sent to prison for another 14 months yesterday after admitting a string of further sex offences.

Richard Hart, aged 61, of Beguildy, near Knighton, mid-Wales, admitted nine counts of sexually assaulting a schoolgirl just days before he was due to be released from prison.

The father-of-five and former priest in charge of four south Powys parishes “had a deep-seated and spurious interest in children”, Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court heard.