A Catholic priest from Cardiff has been sentenced to a year-long community order after admitting to sending racist and violent messages in an online neo-Nazi chatroom.
Father Mark Rowles, 57, of St John Lloyd Catholic Church, appeared before magistrates after investigators from counter-terrorism police traced his posts on the encrypted messaging app Telegram.
Operating under the name “skinheadlad1488” in a chatroom called “Aryan Reich Killers”, he was found to have written messages urging that mosques be bombed and using obscene racial slurs against black people and Muslims.
