A former chaplain to the late Queen Elizabeth II has been given a community payback order after he admitted sexually communicating with a person posing as 14-year-old boy.<\/p>\n
Andrew Deuchar, 70, of Chirnside, pleaded guilty to sending indecent images of himself and a video of a sexual nature on the Kik messaging site.<\/p>\n
Jedburgh Sheriff Court heard the intended recipient was someone Deuchar thought was an underage boy in Ireland called Jason.<\/p>\n
But it was in fact an adult decoy belonging to an online paedophile hunter group.<\/p>\n
Deuchar was given a two-year payback order with supervision and made subject to the notification requirements of the Sexual Offences Act for a similar period.<\/p>\n
Members of the group turned up at his home in the Borders in May where they live-streamed the confrontation.<\/p>\n
Deuchar told them: “I made a mistake, I realise that.”<\/p>\n
Alasdair Fay, prosecuting, told a previous hearing: “The matter was reported to the police.<\/p>\n
“During his interview the accused said: ‘I am sorry. It was a mistake.’ It only happened once.<\/p>\n
“The boy had taken the lead and had been the instigator of some things.”<\/p>\n
Mr Fay said that during the message exchange the man posing as the child said he was just 14 years old.<\/p>\n
Sentence had previously been deferred for background reports.<\/p>\n
Positive report<\/p>\n
Defence lawyer Keith Tuck said a criminal justice social work report on Deuchar was a “positive one.”<\/p>\n
He continued: “It seems quite clear that the events have given him a great deal of time for reflection.<\/p>\n
“He deeply regrets his involvement in such matters and is now on a path to considering the underlying reasons for it.<\/p>\n
“It is a serious matter and he understands that.”<\/p>\n
Deuchar was appointed a chaplain to the late Queen in 2004 when he was a Church of England parish priest in Nottinghamshire.<\/p>\n
However, he resigned the post in 2008 when he was accused of inappropriate conduct towards a female parishioner.<\/p>\n
Deuchar then moved to the Scottish Borders and became director of Berwick Literary Festival.<\/p>\n
He was dismissed from the unpaid role after his arrest for indecent online communications became known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former chaplain to the late Queen Elizabeth II has been given a community payback order after he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[17495,17490,17493,17494,17496,17491,17492,9,24,63,1312,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-27803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-alasdair-fay","tag-andrew-deuchar","tag-chaplain","tag-community-payback","tag-deuchar","tag-indecent-images","tag-jedburgh-sheriff-court","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}