From The Daily Mail-A high-powered group of lawyers, politicians and police officers yesterday accused the Church of England of smearing one of its own heroes.
They declared that an allegation that former Bishop of Chichester George Bell was a child abuser ‘cannot be upheld’ and called for an inquiry into how the CofE came to make it.
The protest, by well-placed figures including Anglican Labour MP Frank Field, leading lawyer Desmond Browne QC, and former police chief Lord Geoffrey Dear, threw the Church into a fresh difficulty over its handling of sex abuse allegations.
Last week the Church declared that a number of senior Anglican figures had failed to act on allegations of historic sex abuse of a teenager by a paedophile priest. It declined, however, to publish the report.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3501953/Church-England-wrong-smear-sex-abuse-bishop-group-lawyers-politicians-church-leaders-say-allegation-upheld-question-named.html
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