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A priest taking advantage of an old sick woman.... and they wonder why church attendance is falling
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As alleged in the Daily Record, the neice in Irvine seems pretty sure, the Diocese seems concerned.

Looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and I can hear the quacking from here

Think you better add an allegedly in there.

" That money was only resting in my account"

The defence of

Father Ted Crilly banished to the Craggy island parochial house for financial irregularities.

Life imitating a sitcom it would appear, allegedly.

Other than implying that the priesnt concerned is trying to sell the house on Barra and keep the proceeds, what is the allegation against him?

The police certainly don't seem concerned.

Ranald wrote:Other than implying that the priesnt concerned is trying to sell the house on Barra and keep the proceeds, what is the allegation against him?

The police certainly don't seem concerned.

Don't be a plonker all your life take a day off

What an incredibly poor piece of jouranlism. Essentially a big headline that says priest runs off to Pakistan with poor old ladies million quid. On closer inspection it should say. "Niece not very happy about Aunt's choice of Power of Attorney.

"According to Morag he put the house up for sale" - feck me you wouln't have to be Inspector Cleuseau to work out if the house is actually on the market or not. Can you imagine there being a house for sale in Machrihanish and a well intentioned journalist NOT being able to verify this!

Timelines don't make sense either.

"Catherine met Father Azad three years ago"
"The pair became friends and began to visit her frequently at home"
"Catherine had a massive stroke in February 2004"

Now I know I didn't lsiten to absolutely everything in Mr Stankey's maths class, but in my book that would equate to about........ well three years ago, i.e. the same time he met her! So why the insinuation that he'd spent months if not years grooming the woman out of her cash.

Anyway if you read and believe this level of journalism then there's not much point in trying to have a constructive discussion about it.

I don't attend Mr Azad church, but really find this level of journalism close to disgusting. If he's done anything wrong then let the police investigate it and charge him on evidence.

the ringmaster wrote:Don't be a plonker all your life, take a day off

Plonker you say. Care to explain why?

Sheik Yir Erse wrote:What an incredibly poor piece of jouranlism.
Anyway if you read and believe this level of journalism then there's not much point in trying to have a constructive discussion about it.

I don't attend Mr Azad church, but really find this level of journalism close to disgusting.
If he's done anything wrong then let the police investigate it and charge him on evidence.

I'd suggest anyone who takes any of this as gospel ( ) is the real plonker.

Trust me a lot more to come about this priest.

Easy to post something like that, hard to justify or back it up.

Are you going to attempt that or just make sly comments?

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not
bother about them. It requires a very unusual
mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious

This sounds like a case for the civil courts probably, but does seem a bit strange that a priest wouldn't have advised her to get a relative or someone she has known for years to be power of attorney. I think that when someone places themselves in the position of authority over other people, they have a far greater responsibility and obligation to make sure everything is absolutely above board.

With Ranald on this one---has the guy done anything illegal?

Rabmacd wrote:With Ranald on this one---has the guy done anything illegal?

Totally agree with Ranald, Rab and Sheik on this one. Piece of ill informed journalism.

I mean, anyone with half a brain would know it is not just a case of someone saying 'gies power tae yer attorney hen!'. It is a bit more complicated than that...

Seems strange the niece appears in the picture al of a sudden, if you ask me.

Really surprised it is the Courier's headline this week "Absolute disgrace" - is a quote however, but just don't think it is appropriate for the local paper to hijack a shit piece of journalism from the Daily Record.

I agree with you there Jock about the niece appearing on the scene suddenly.
And the type of journalism that the Record employs has always been questionable.

As to the Courier headline though - it was a quote they used, and the whole subject is news whatever your views are on it - the whole town is talking about it. The Courier has been slated before for not reporting controversial stuff. Seems they're damned if they do and damned if they don't.

Malky

Malky wrote:As to the Courier headline though - it was a quote they used, and the whole subject is news whatever your views are on it - the whole town is talking about it. The Courier has been slated before for not reporting controversial stuff. Seems they're damned if they do and damned if they don't.

Totally agree - bit like stuff on here!