A Catholic priest who admitted discussing bombing mosques and shooting Black people in the head in neo-Nazi online chatrooms has been sentenced to a 12-month community order.
Father Mark Rowles, 57, used the name “skinheadlad1488” in a chatroom called Aryan Reich Killers where grotesquely offensive messages about Muslims were written.
On Thursday, Rowles, of St John Lloyd Catholic Church in Cardiff, admitted three counts of sending menacing or offensive messages using the Telegram app in May and June 2024. He will complete 150 hours of community service, pay £199 in costs, and be subject to a Criminal Behaviour Order for three years. The Catholic Church in Wales will conduct its own review.
The court was told he described himself in an online profile as a 16-year-old skinhead neo-Nazi and a loner. His profile picture showed a young white man with a face covering, alongside a German flag and the words “right hand path always.”
199 in legal fees? Can you get a chimney cleaned for that amount??
Fucking hell!
Also if this was a Muslim cleric saying the same thing in reverse they would be jailed for multiple years as a terrorist. But this privileged mofo gets off with a slapped bottom.
And this is why I’ll never get the islamophobes. The fight should be against extremist religious views, be it Christian, Muslim Hindu or whatever. And argument can be made than nowadays the majority or extremist views and sect are Muslim, but this that religion in itself is not a problem more than other and it’s not set in stone
Are you lonely? Do you want a solution for loneliness? The answer is here. Join a neo-nazi online chatroom posing as a 16 year old boy. It makes sense, perfectly reasonable and not suspicious in any way what so ever.
The court was told he described himself in an online profile as a 16-year-old skinhead neo-Nazi and a loner.
Fucking creep
“Your honor, pls, I was just grooming gamers”
During police interviews, Rowles said he was not racist and joined the online groups because he was lonely and had a sexual fetish for role play.
Rowles said he was not racist
not racist
This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this, why do so many racists argue that they’re not racist?
Also
he was lonely and had a sexual fetish for role play
a sexual fetish for role play
The court was told he described himself in an online profile as a 16-year-old skinhead neo-Nazi and a loner.
A sexual fetish to be a 16 year old boy?..
Yeah, that seems kinda old for a priest
It’s funny how it always boils down to “I’m not racist, I just think non-white people are inherently inferior to white people”.
He’s probably happy to accept the sentence and get all this shoved behind him. I bet if the police had looked deeper at other online activities and his pc his term would be much longer.
Terrible…shouldn’t he be molesting boys?
