Birmingham priest, Father Samuel Penney, who in 1993 was jailed for seven years after admitting ten charges of indecent assault on seven children.

In the case of Father Penney, the archdiocese of Birmingham merely moved the culprit for at least six years – despite reports of abuse and one arrest – to new parishes and new victims, while he still paid return visits to a family where he was abusing five children

Paedophile priest Samuel Penney leaving court in Leamington in 1992

Penney abused children in the Midlands for 20 years, including five children from one family in Leamington Spa. He also worked in Nechells.