Former Archbishop of Canterbury George
Carey delayed a "proper investigation" into a senior priest's
paedophile crimes for two decades by failing to pass information to
police, an inquiry heard.
A
lawyer for some victims of Peter Ball, the disgraced former Bishop of
Lewes and Bishop of Gloucester, made the claim to Dame Lowell Goddard's
public inquiry into child sex abuse. Ball, 84, was jailed for 32 months in October 2015 after pleading guilty to a string of historical sex offences.