UNITED KINGDOM
The Sunday Times
A former victim tells Oliver Thring how his friend committed suicide after abuse by Prince Charles’s church friend
Oliver Thring Published: 13 September 2015
Cliff James decided to speak out after his friend Neil Todd committed suicide. In 2012 Sussex police had reopened a historic investigation into Peter Ball, the former Bishop of Lewes and of Gloucester and the most senior Church of England figure to face claims of child abuse. Todd who, like James, had been abused by Ball as a teenager in the early 1990s, killed himself shortly after Ball was arrested.
“He never had closure,” says James, speaking publicly for the first time. “He never got over it. And he might have if only the church had investigated things properly at the time and not tried to cover everything up.”
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