Priest admits child porn charges

Father Walsh will be sentenced next year

A 50-year-old Roman Catholic priest has pleaded guilty to 19 charges relating to child pornography.

Father Alexander Bede Walsh, who served in Banbury, Oxfordshire, until earlier this year, admitted charges of making indecent images of children.

The charges relate to offences in March this year, after which Father Walsh resigned from his post at St John the Evangelist Church in Banbury.

He will be sentenced at Oxford Crown Court in January.