He is the shamed priest whose colourful private life propelled him into the public eye. Now Father Roddy MacNeil has come to prominence once again – thanks to a row over a house gifted to him by Princess Diana's mother.
Father
MacNeil, who was suspended from his parish after getting his cousin
pregnant, is battling a £150,000 court action brought by his
brother-in-law John Gray over his father's estate. Mr Gray told a court that the 55-year-old cleric was given the house by Frances Shand Kydd in 2000.