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A CORRUPT vicar who handed himself in after going on the the run will be sentenced today.
Simon Reynolds went missing during a lunch break at Sheffield Crown Court on July 23, shortly before being found guilty of four counts of theft.
He trousered more than £24,000 of fees for weddings, funerals and graveyard memorials which were destined for his diocese, while based at a church near Barnsley.
Senior clergy including the Bishop of Wakefield had called for Mr Reynolds to give himself up.
Local police had alerted Interpol about his flight, fearing he had escaped to greener pastures across the Channel.
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.
