The priest at the centre of sectarian attack has spoken out after the perpetrator was jailed.

Reverend Thomas Canon White was spat on outside of St Alphonsus Church on London Road on July 7, last year.

His DNA was later found to match saliva on the back of the vestment worn by Canon White.

Wallace, from Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, admitted the assault last month.

He was sentenced to a 10-month jail sentence by Sheriff Andrew Cubie, who told him: "How does a 24-year-old not know how to behave? You took the decision to spit on a Priest.

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“It is disgusting and was designed to humiliate him and others around him and this incident is motivated by religious prejudice.”

In response to the sentence, Canon White said: "Having been made aware of the sentence that Bradley Wallace received for his part in what the Sheriff has described as a “grotesque spectacle”, I am encouraged to learn that Mr Wallace has recognized the “unacceptable nature of his conduct”.

"I think however the conviction of one man, for one spittle does not reflect or begin to address what happened last July.

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"My parishioners and I were spat at and shouted at by a mob, the memory of some of my frailest and most vulnerable parishioners fleeing their church in a state of fear and alarm is one that will abide with me for a long time.

"I have no desire for myself or my parishioners to be the focus of an issue which has a much larger context that needs addressed, and I am saddened that already there are clear signals that a new marching season has arrived, and it is back to business as usual."