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| Contempt penalty for Kluk priest | |
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| The priest involved in the Angelika Kluk murder trial has been sentenced to 100 hours community service after being found guilty of contempt of court. | The priest involved in the Angelika Kluk murder trial has been sentenced to 100 hours community service after being found guilty of contempt of court. |
| Father Gerry Nugent, 63, was repeatedly warned by High Court judge Lord Menzies about "prevaricating" when questioned by defence lawyer Donald Findlay QC. | |
| The judge said he would have imposed a jail sentence but he took into account the priest's history of helping others. | The judge said he would have imposed a jail sentence but he took into account the priest's history of helping others. |
| Peter Tobin, 60, was sentenced to life for raping and murdering Ms Kluk. | Peter Tobin, 60, was sentenced to life for raping and murdering Ms Kluk. |
| Tobin, a church handyman, attacked Ms Kluk last September at St Patrick's Church, in Anderston, Glasgow. | |
| Passing sentence on Fr Nugent on Tuesday, the judge also placed him on probation for a year. | |
| Giving evidence | Giving evidence |
| The parish priest, who had revealed that he is an alcoholic, said he had a sexual relationship with Ms Kluk, who was working as a cleaner at the church and saving up money for her studies. | |
| He was found in contempt of court while giving evidence during the six-week trial at the High Court in Edinburgh. | |
| Lord Menzies told the priest he would normally have imposed a jail sentence for such an offence. | Lord Menzies told the priest he would normally have imposed a jail sentence for such an offence. |
| However, he took into account the priest's "outstanding history" of helping others and various reports which had been placed before him. | |
| Lord Menzies said: "Prevarication and hence contempt of court is something which courts cannot tolerate if our system of justice is to be properly administered. | |
| Angelika Kluk was murdered by church handyman Peter Tobin | Angelika Kluk was murdered by church handyman Peter Tobin |
| "You were found to be in contempt of court by prevarication in a very important trial - a trial which could hardly have had a higher profile and a trial which could hardly have been more important, involving as it did a charge of murder and rape of a young woman who was staying in your own chapel house." | |
| Last week, the court heard how Tobin concealed the 23-year-old's body in the church and then absconded to London. | Last week, the court heard how Tobin concealed the 23-year-old's body in the church and then absconded to London. |
| Lord Menzies said that Tobin should serve a minimum of 21 years and he described him as "an evil man". | |
| The judge told Tobin: "In the course of my time in the law I have seen many bad men and I have heard evidence about many terrible crimes which have been committed but I have heard no case more tragic, more terrible than this one. | |
| "The advocate-depute describes what you did to Angelika Kluk as an atrocity and that word aptly describes what you did to this young woman." | "The advocate-depute describes what you did to Angelika Kluk as an atrocity and that word aptly describes what you did to this young woman." |