Dean Was Still Preying on Choirboys When Church Ruled Him Too Ill to Be a Risk

By Sean O’Neill
The Times
May 16, 2013

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/article3766179.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2013_05_15

Sean O’Neill Crime Editor

A senior Church of England cleric suspected of being a serial child abuser was a governor of the scandal-hit Chetham’s School of Music for nine years and preyed on its pupils.

New evidence from abuse victims suggests that the Very Rev Robert Waddington, a former Dean of Manchester Cathedral, was still pursuing young boys at the time the Church decided that he was too ill and frail to pose a threat to children.