An Irish Catholic priest accused of embezzling the British social security department has been found guilty of dishonesty. A jury at Liverpool Crown Court yesterday convicted Daniel Magill of two charges of false accounting but cleared him of four similar offences.
The priest, a member of the Missionaries of Africa, also known as the White Fathers, was conditionally discharged for two years. The judge granted a certificate of appeal on the grounds that the jury's verdicts were "illogical, inconsistent and irrational".
