Former Catholic priest and paedophile Patrick Holmes jailed a second time for sexually abusing children
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FebFebruary 2021 at 2:06pm
Patrick Holmes abused the five children while he was a parish priest at two Perth churches.
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An elderly defrocked Catholic priest has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years jail for sexually abusing five children in Perth in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
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Patrick Holmes was jailed for three years in 2014 for abusing two young girls
Holmes has been sent to jail again for abusing five other children at two Perth churches
He will have to serve three and a half years behind bars before he is eligible for parole