Vicar, 79, discovered with vile ‘eunuch maker’ photographs as police raided his area over meth and ketamine hoard he claimed helped him relate to fans

A former vicar who claimed his drug dependancy helped him relate to his parishioners has admitted possessing indecent photographs connected to the ‘eunuch maker’ case.

Geoffrey Baulcomb, who was once expelled from the Church of England closing 12 months via a disciplinary panel, was once nonetheless ordained on the time of the offences. 

In a listening to on the Old Bailey on Tuesday, the 79-year-old admitted seven fees,  together with distributing an indecent video of a kid and creating a Category A indecent symbol of a kid.

Baulcomb additionally pleaded in charge to creating 4 class B and 37 class C indecent photographs of youngsters.

He admitted 3 additional fees of possessing excessive pornographic photographs, one among which associated with ‘8 photographs portraying particular person acting an act of sex with a reside or lifeless unknown animal’.

Another associated with ‘182 photographs which portrayed in an particular and sensible method an act which resulted or was once prone to lead to severe harm to an individual’s anus, breasts or genitals and which have been grossly offensive, disgusting or another way of an obscene persona’.

Prosecutor David Burns has hooked up the case with some other ‘involving the damaging surgical elimination of a number of frame portions’ – a connection with self-styled ‘eunuch maker’ Marius Gustavson, who was once jailed for lifestyles closing May with a minimal time period of 22 years.

Gustavson mutilated paying consumers, streaming on-line procedures that have been described at his sentencing as ‘little in need of human butchery’.

Baulcomb was once expelled via the Church of England closing 12 months. He retired from the ancient St Mary the Virgin church in Eastbourne, East Sussex, noticed above, a number of years in the past

Prosecutor David Burns has hooked up Baulcomb’s case with some other ‘involving the damaging surgical elimination of a number of frame portions’ – a connection with ‘eunuch maker’ Marius Gustavson 

Crystal meth and ketamine have been came upon via police all the way through a raid on Baulcomb’s £25,000 cottage close to Eastbourne in December 2022.

He accredited a police warning for possessing the ingredients and advised church officers he were purchasing and the use of medicine, together with heroin, ‘periodically’ for 20 years.

A church disciplinary tribunal ‘completely rejected’ his declare that taking medicine ‘assisted him in sporting out his pastoral project’.

Baulcomb was once passed an everlasting ban from any place within the Church of England closing September.

‘You’ve pleaded in charge these days to a couple very severe offences,’ Judge Nigel Lickley, KC, advised him. ‘You’re no longer going to be sentenced these days.’

Baulcomb was once granted bail till May 2 topic to prerequisites that come with no planned direct or oblique touch with folks below 18. 

He no longer attending any occasions on Church of England premises, place of abode at his deal with in Filching Grove, Eastbourne, and to not discuss with web pages or social media platforms depicting excessive frame amendment.

Baulcomb retired from the ancient St Mary the Virgin church in Eastbourne, East Sussex a number of years in the past.