Cornelius Horan - the legend continues
Priest dances jig after sex-charge acquittal
28/10/2004 - 14:59:00
Contoversial Catholic priest Neil Horan did a jig outside the Old Bailey in London today after being cleared of a sex charge.
Horan, 57, was dressed in a brown kilt, green beret and the green underpants featured in the case.
He pranced around for several minutes to a cassette recording of Kerry Fiddles under the gaze of bemused policemen, lawyers and onlookers.
A jury of four women and eight men took only an hour to clear him of indecency with a seven-year-old girl in 1991.
Horan, who has not worked in a church for 10 years, stages stunts to publicise his beliefs about the second coming and the end of the world.
He shocked millions of people around the world this year when he stepped in front of the leader in the Olympic marathon race, possibly costing him the gold medal.
And last year he was jailed for two months for disrupting the British Grand Prix race at Silverstone by running on to the track in front of speeding cars.
Horan, who has an address at Nunhead, south London, had been accused of letting the girl touch his pensi after taking off his green underpants.
But Horan said the incident in his bedsit attached to St Anthony’s Church, Penge, south London, was not sexual.
He had taken the mother literally when she told him sarcastically that he might as well take all his clothes off when he answered the door in his underwear.
They played hide-and-seek but the girl had not touched his private parts.
He showed the jury the pants and said he had kept them for 13 years because they were the ones
he used for his dancing and protests.
After being cleared, he said: “It is the happiest day of my life. As for the women who accused me, I wish them well. I would not have stripped in front of other women but I was very close to the girl’s mother – it was a unique relationship.
“But there is a lesson to be learned for other priests, who should be careful not to get too close to women they deal with.”
Horan said he would not be disrupting any more sporting events.
Re: Cornelius Horan - the legend continues
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Originally posted by Merrion
Horan said he would not be disrupting any more sporting events.
Wow, he's cleverer than anyone thought. :rofl:
He wants his head kicking in.
