The scandal of a predatory Bishop who escaped prosecution for child abuse for two decades deepened last night as it was claimed that the Church of England knew he was a serial abuser of ‘young men’.
Peter Ball – who was eventually jailed after admitting the abuse last year – benefited from a ‘deeply sinister cover-up’.
Secret documents claimed that he had been
let off 23 years ago to ‘prevent a scandal in the press’ – despite the
Church of England being told he was a serial abuser. Ball resigned as
Bishop of Gloucester in 1993, but returned to work within two years.