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| Vicar who went on the run after stealing church funds jailed | Vicar who went on the run after stealing church funds jailed |
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| A vicar who went on the run to Germany just before he was convicted of stealing thousands of pounds has been jailed for two years and eight months. | A vicar who went on the run to Germany just before he was convicted of stealing thousands of pounds has been jailed for two years and eight months. |
| Simon Reynolds, 50, took more than £16,500 handed over to All Saints Church in Darton, Barnsley, for weddings, funerals and churchyard memorials. | Simon Reynolds, 50, took more than £16,500 handed over to All Saints Church in Darton, Barnsley, for weddings, funerals and churchyard memorials. |
| He was jailed at Sheffield crown court by judge Julian Goose QC, who heard that Reynolds fled to Dusseldorf as the jury deliberated last week. | He was jailed at Sheffield crown court by judge Julian Goose QC, who heard that Reynolds fled to Dusseldorf as the jury deliberated last week. |
| He handed himself in to South Yorkshire police on Monday in an arranged appointment. | He handed himself in to South Yorkshire police on Monday in an arranged appointment. |
| Senior clergy, including the Right Rev Tony Robinson, bishop of Wakefield, and the Ven Peter Townley, archdeacon of Pontefract, had appealed for Reynolds, of Farnham, Surrey, to hand himself in. | |
| Reynolds’s trial heard he had not paid any fees for weddings or funerals to the Wakefield diocesan board of finance for a number of years, despite conducting a number of services during this time. | Reynolds’s trial heard he had not paid any fees for weddings or funerals to the Wakefield diocesan board of finance for a number of years, despite conducting a number of services during this time. |
| Monuments for 23 burials and 50 cremation plaques or inscriptions were found in the church grounds and graveyard but no records of the burials or cremations had been made. | Monuments for 23 burials and 50 cremation plaques or inscriptions were found in the church grounds and graveyard but no records of the burials or cremations had been made. |