ENGLAND
BBC News
March 1, 2018
By Colin Campbell
A relative of a clergyman accused of abusing an 11-year-old boy has called for his headstone to be destroyed.
Canon Dermod Fogarty, who died in 2012, is accused of subjecting Stephen Bernard to a four-year abuse ordeal in a book written by the Oxford academic.
Deirdre McCormack, Canon Fogarty’s next of kin, says the epitaph to a much-loved, wise priest – which she wrote – has been shown to be a “blatant lie”.
Ms McCormack has not yet had a response to her request.
Canon Fogarty worked in the Arundel and Brighton diocese for 67 years.
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