Cardiff priest admits sending racist messages

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A Catholic priest who admitted discussing bombing mosques and shooting black people in the head in neo-Nazi online chatrooms has been sentenced to a 12-month community order.

Father Mark Rowles, 57, admitted three counts of sending menacing or offensive messages using the Telegram app in May and June 2024.

BBC reporter Colette Hume asked him outside Cardiff Magistrates' Court why he wanted to kill Muslims and bomb mosques?

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