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Church expels priest after abuse images conviction
Daily Post
|March 18, 2026
A PRIEST convicted of having child abuse images and extreme pornography has been expelled from the church.
In January 2025, Llandudno Magistrates Court heard Samuel Erlandson, a former Church in Wales clergyman who had worked as a chaplain at St David’s College in Llandudno, had “extremely disturbing” indecent images of children aged three to eight.
Erlandson, formerly of High Street, Ruabon, admitted the two counts of making an indecent image of a child at a hearing in November 2024.
He also admitted to having two images of extreme pornography at a later hearing.
He was sentenced to 32 weeks imprisonment, suspended for 18 months.
He was ordered to do 160 hours of unpaid work, 15 days of rehabilitation activity and up to 26 sessions of a required programme.
This story is from the March 18, 2026 edition of Daily Post.
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