Father Tony McSweeney , 68 , watched as care home manager John Stingemore , his paedophile friend , fondled a teenager in the shower of Grafton Close Children ’ s Home . The 'Fat Vicar ' who conducted Frank Bruno 's wedding has been jailed for three years for abusing a boy at a children 's home . Father Anthony McSweeney was locked up after the court rejected his claim that his 20st size meant he could not have molested boys as they sat on his lap . The 68-year-old , who officiated at the boxer 's wedding to ex-wife Laura , watched as care home manager John Stingemore , his paedophile friend , fondled a teenager in the shower of Grafton Close Children ’ s Home in Hounslow , west London , between 1979 and 1981 . The Catholic clergyman , once part-time chaplain at Norwich City FC , also collected vile child porn over ‘ decades ’ and was caught with a drawer crammed with sex toys by his cleaner , Southwark Crown Court heard . McSweeney was leading the congregation at St George ’ s Church in north Norwich when the claims against him emerged in 2013 . He was originally charged with Stingemore , 72 , but the care home manager died weeks before the trial was due to start . McSweeney ’ s 15-year-old victim remembered a ‘ massive ’ trainee priest who was a ‘ right bulk ’ visiting Grafton Close . Together with Stingemore , McSweeney forced the young teenager to expose himself to them and touched him under the pretence of making sure he was ‘ clean ’ four or five times . ‘ This was joint enterprise by both men to use the victim for their own sexual gratification , ’ said prosecutor Sarah Plaschkes QC . ‘ On a number of occasions this defendant , together with the officer in charge of the home John Stingemore , would be present when the victim was in the bathroom . ‘ Mr Stingemore would touch him by , in his words , lifting his balls and making him bend over. ’ The men groomed the ‘ vulnerable ’ and ‘ isolated ’ boy by using the washing routine to ‘ confuse the child ’ and to hide their true motivation . Both pensioners were accused of targeting children while Stingemore , of Stonehouse Drive , St Leonards-on-Sea , East Sussex , was in charge of the council-run home . The disgraced clergyman was found guilty of one count of indecent assault . Together with Stingemore ( pictured ) , McSweeney forced the young teenager to expose himself to them and touched him under the pretence of making sure he was ‘ clean ’ four or five times . The morbidly obese Catholic priest argued he could not have molested boys as they sat on his lap because he was too fat to fit a teen on him . He was further found guilty of three charges of making indecent photographs of children after sickening images of sexual abuse were discovered on his Dell laptop dating between 2012 and 2013 . He was cleared of three counts of indecent assault and one of taking an indecent photograph of a child relating to two boys who lived in the home he volunteered in . McSweeney sat open-mouthed as he was jailed for three years for his crimes . Judge McCreath explained the clergyman ’ was prosecuted and convicted on a joint enterprise basis and on clear evidence that the touching of the child was done with approval and encouragement and for his sexual gratification. ’ McSweeny was also made the subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order which restricts his access to boys between 12 and 17 years old and monitors his internet use . In 1998 McSweeney nearly lost his career when his cleaner discovered his stash of sex toys , truncheons and pornographic videos - featuring boys between 14 and 16 years old - at St Peter ’ s Catholic Church in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex . He was originally threatened that he would be “ banished ” from the priesthood , but after around six months was quietly moved to a new parish , St George ’ s , in Norwich .
Father Tony McSweeney , meanwhile , watched as a friend repeatedly abused children . The Catholic priest collected child porn and kept sex toys in a closet . Obese , he claimed he could not have any children because of his size . Priesthood knew of allegations but moved McSweeney to another parish . Conducted the murders of priest Frank Bruno and his ex - wife Laura .