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Pierce went on to become a bishop himself - but in March admitted five charges of indecent assault against a boy under the age of 16 between 1985 and 1990.

But there’s always a less indecent, a less callous, a less ugly way.

According to Essex University's Prof Lorna Woods, the lowest level of views that can be prosecuted in British criminal law are those deemed "grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character".

Detectives found more than 4,000 indecent images of children on his phone - most of which he had manipulated the young girls into sending.

Eleven charges of aggravated indecent assault - deemed more serious as they allegedly related to people under his authority - were downgraded on Thursday.