Dyfed-Powys Police has confirmed that a 76-year-old male has been arrested on suspicion of harassment and sexual assault - after a local lady revealed in an interview with a national newspaper on the weekend, that one of the monks on Caldey Island had sent her naked pictures.

Fifty-six-year-old Lisa Love of Narberth, who works on St Catherine’s Island which sits alongside Castle Beach in Tenby, just over the water from Caldey, revealed to the Mail on Sunday that one of the monks on the holy island has sent her photographs after she met him some years ago while staying with her elderly parents in a cottage on the island.

Love told the Mail: “It’s not what you expect from a monk who is supposed to spend every day praying mostly in silence. The photographs are silhouettes but you can see his bits. He seems to be enjoying himself. The island is supposed to be a holy place and the monastery goes back centuries. It’s not a nudist camp or a Playboy mansion.”

She went onto say that after her mother passed away in 2011 she continued to holiday in the cottage with her teenage daughters.

She continued: “I saw him as a friend giving me spiritual guidance after losing my mum. He started writing to me, then letters arrived with naked pictures inside them. I was startled, I didn’t know what to make of it. Why was a monk sending me pictures of himself in the nude?

“Then there were books with passages about love highlighted in yellow marker pen. I didn’t do anything about it, but I kept it all. It’s still in my attic.”

She told the publication that she was was contacted by the same monk some years later, this time via text message, and was ’shocked’ to receive the same naked pictures that had been sent more than 10 years earlier.

The Mail said it had confronted the monk in question, and went onto name him as Brother Titus Keet.

He admitted to the publication that he was the man in the photographs, stating that he had been ‘stupid and naive’ to send them, but explained that he saw it as ‘art in the name of God’ and ‘not sexual’.

When contacted on the matter, a spokesperson for the local police authority stated: “Dyfed-Powys Police received a report, on September 18, of harassment, and non-recent sexual offences.

“A 76-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of harassment and sexual assault. He has been released on conditional bail pending further police enquiries.

“The victim is being supported by specialist officers.”