ENGLAND
Press Association
March 9, 2018
An independent reviewer of child sex abuse by Church of England clergy was not shown documents that may have shed light on previous offending, an inquiry heard.
Roger Meekings, who carried out a 2009 past case review for the Diocese of Chichester, told the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse that information about clergy who were later jailed had not been in their personnel files.
They included former Bishop of Lewes Peter Ball and Canon Gordon Rideout, both of whom were later imprisoned.
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