life For Paedophile Priest
Updated: 22:59, Friday July 28, 2006
A church minister who groomed young boys on the interenet and subjected them to appalling sex attacks has been jailed for life.
Simon Thomas was told by a judge at Southampton Crown Court he would serve at least eight years in jail.
The 44-year-old, who is married man with four children, was also banned from communicating and working with children.
As a further measure, he will be placed on the Sex Offenders Register for life.
Thomas, who served as a minister with the United Reformed Church in Hythe, Hants, pleaded guilty last month to 35 charges.
They included two offences of raping an 11-year-old boy.
Other offences included taking indecent photos of children and indecent assault involving nine boys aged 11 to 15.
It emerged earlier this week Thomas committed most of the offences after warnings to the police and the URC about his sexual liaisons with minors.
Thomas was questioned in 2003 but officers halted the investigation without checking his computers because the tip-off was anonymous.
The father of one of his victims - who wished to remain anonymous - told Sky News the case had devastated his family.
At least 8 year in jail? is the judge on f**k drugs or what? this guy, should get life, definition of life in my books, is the rest of your life, not a poxy 8 years, yet another example of uk justice, at its worst....... i hope this "priest" rots in hell..........or at very least, meets some mob justice......not the ideal way, but clearly more realistic than the courts......

: Maybe we should send you to a concentration camp.




