Dr K - boogie woogie piano guy - and the much-hyped case of the fake priest

Brendan Kavanagh has uploaded a complete set of videos about his arrest by Bedfordshire Constabulary on 1 April 2025, witnessed by his 'traumatised' children. "Dr K" uploaded his house CCTV footage with criticisms of the police, then various videos criticising the bishop, Paul Morgan, who denounced him; and finally police bodycam footage released to him as evidence in his civil case against the police.

In a give-away remark to me Dr K said, "I'm coming at this from a marketing perspective." It was a lightbulb moment for me. His YouTube strategy to monetise his arrest is now complete. Yes, there was a "dodgy priest" but there was also an irresponsible publicity-driven marketing strategy that put Dr K's own kids at risk. Through his manic focus on online monetisation of his channel and persona he carelessly put his own kids into the hands of an abuser, as the vanity project of a private Latin Mass chapel - another marketing ploy? - was an open barn door for the Devil!

The full details and references are on equusasinus.net (just a rubbish blog about a guy with a donkey farm) but I'm Catholic and in the Universal Church we should all take safeguarding the vulnerable seriously. This has been an irresponsibe marketing game with no focus on the real safeguarding issues. Thanks for the "boogie woogie" Dr K. It was fun for your marketing while it lasted, but I finally got you talking to the Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency, which is what should have happened a year ago when you had your suspicions about Moran.

I write about happier things normally, at wherepeteris.com mainly about pilgrimage and Catholic culture: https://wherepeteris.com/author/garet... ...And I don't do "marketing" on my YouTube channel. 11,000.000 hits arrived unexpectedly (yes eleven million) thanks to Morris and Aitana donkeys frolicking about in a video    • 11 million views but donks ruined it! YouT...   which was curious, but could not be monetised as YouTube deemed the video very rood and norty...