Former Catholic priest and paedophile Patrick Holmes jailed a second time for sexually abusing children

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.

It is not the first time 86-year-old Patrick Holmes has been sent to prison — in 2014 he was jailed for three years for abusing two young girls, also in the 1960s and the 1980s.

All the offences happened when he was the parish priest, firstly at the Holy Name Church in Carlisle and later at the Saint Aloysius Church…