THE TELEGRAPH: A senior circuit judge who hit the headlines over claims he had a passionate fling with a male prostitute has resigned.
Judge Gerald Price QC, 61, was suspended last summer when an official investigation was launched into his conduct.
Christopher Williams, 26, the male prostitute, claimed that he was allowed to sit on the bench during trials and was even present during sentencing.
The investigation recommended the judge should be sacked as a result of his conduct but he resigned after a failed appeal, before he could be dismissed.
The investigation was launched after disclosures in the News of the World in June last year claiming he had a nine month affair with Williams, a £250-a-night rent boy.
Mr Price, who is married, sat as a senior circuit judge in Swansea, Cardiff and Carmarthen, south Wales.
Williams was widely reported claiming that Mr Price had set him up in a flat and paid him an allowance.
Mr Price is believed to have made initial contact with Mr Williams through an escort website in September 2008.
Mr Williams claimed at the time that he initially met Mr Price in a hotel and later at his second home near Carmarthen, west Wales.
News of his resignation came in the form of a statement issued by the Office for Judicial Complaints. >>> | Monday, July 12, 2010
