UNITED KINGDOM
The Argus
Joel Adams, Reporter Argus_JoelA
A SOLICITOR specialising in child sexual abuse cases has criticised a group of Establishment figures for not treating her client with the respect she deserves.
Tracey Emmott represents a woman who was abused by wartime Bishop of Chichester George Bell in the 1940s and 50s, and who received compensation and an apology from the Church of England last year.
This weekend the self-titled George Bell Group criticised the Church’s handling of the case, and called upon the Archbishop of Canterbury to apologise for blackening Bishop Bell’s name over the case.
Ms Emmott said: “It is disappointing that my client’s account continues to be so relentlessly challenged in what appears to be nothing short of a campaign to discredit and invalidate her evidence which has already been considered by independent experts as part of her legal claim.
“My client is not being afforded the dignity and respect she deserves and the closure she has been seeking.”
The George Bell Group includes the bishop’s biographer, a London judge, the Dean of an Oxford college, Frank Field MP and several peers and churchmen.
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