Ex-vicar Richard Hart given new child porn jail term
Monday 14th June 2010, 12:06PM BST.
A former vicar jailed for possessing thousands of child porn images was sent to prison for another 14 months today after admitting a string of further sex offences.
Richard Hart, 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.
Hart also admitted one count of inciting a child to commit an act of gross indecency.
He was charged with the offences, relating to a prolonged period starting in April 2000, while in prison in March.
The court heard he was due to be released from prison on June 3 after serving part of a three-and-a-half-year jail term imposed in September 2008.
The disgraced former vicar had previously admitted possessing almost 57,000 indecent images of children on his home computer.
Cardiff Crown Court heard at the time that he had collected the images “like a magpie” over a 17-year-period.
Prosecutor Ieuan Morris told the court then that “beneath the respectability there was a perverted craving and lusting for young girls.”
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