Married vicar and his mistress jailed after involving underage girl in their affair

A MARRIED vicar and his mistress have each been jailed for four years after they involved an underage girl in their affair.

Rev Stephen Clapham, 61, and cleaner Sally Shaw, 52, started an affair after she told him about her marital woes.

The pair persuaded the girl to strip off and watch them have sex.

They were arrested after she told her teacher.

Clapham, CofE vicar at All Saints’ in Church Lawton, Cheshire, and Shaw admitted engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child under 13 and making an indecent photo of a child.

Clapham also admitted assaulting a girl under 13 by touching, while Shaw admitted distributing an indecent photograph.

Judge Steven Everett at Chester crown court said: “It was all disgusting. Truly disgusting.”

The vicar was suspended by the Bishop of Chester but has since quit.