Police agreed to shield child sex case bishop

By Jonathan Corke And James Gillespie
Sunday Times
January 10, 2016

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Crime/article1654612.ece

Peter Ball with Prince Charles; after a police caution, Ball lived in a cottage on the prince’s estate

FULL details of a deal agreed by police and the Church of England to caution a paedophile cleric rather than charge him are revealed today in a dossier obtained by The Sunday Times.

The 29-page report details the conclusions of two detectives who investigated Peter Ball, then Bishop of Gloucester, in 1992-3 over allegations of sex abuse. Ball received a police caution at the time and was brought to court only last October, when he admitted the abuse of 18 young men between 1977 and 1992. He was given a 32-month prison sentence.

One of his victims, Neil Todd, killed himself in 2012.