Bishop "Abuse" Probe: Claims Were Made against Ex-bishop of Stepney the Late Trevor Huddleston

Mirror
June 22, 2013

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Meeting: Trevor Huddleston with Nelson Mandela in 1990

A secret police file with claims of child abuse by former Bishop of Stepney the late Trevor Huddleston has come to light, the Sunday People reveals today.

The anti-apartheid ­campaigner, who died in 1998 aged 84, met newly free Nelson Mandela on his visit to London in 1990.

Police files shows ­parents of four boys in East London complained in 1974.

Huddleston told ­officers: “I sat them on my lap, touched their ­bottoms and pinched them but there is nothing indecent.”

The Director of Public Prosecutions Sir Norman Skelhorn did not ­prosecute “for the public good”.

Last week Deputy Bishop of London the Rt Rev Pete Broadbent told the Sunday People: “We want to listen to survivors of abuse if they want to come forward.”