Stephen Lo

A thieving church treasurer was caught trying to communicate sexually with a child in a sting by his daughter and her friend. To the outside world, Stephen Lo was a family man and churchgoer who was trusted to look after the finances of a North East church.

But in a shocking breach of trust, the 54-year-old helped himself to more than £7,500 belonging to the church in a blank cheques scam. And as if that wasn't despicable enough, he was snared by his university student daughter and her friend having sex chats with what he thought was a child. Now his fall from grace is complete after he was locked up.

Newcastle Crown Court heard Katherine Bagnall, who was the vicar at St Thomas and St Oswald’s Church, in Sunderland , came to know Lo eight years ago as he and his family wor

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