UNITED KINGDOM
Cornish Guardian
FURIOUS friends of a missing retired priest from Padstow have condemned those spreading rumours that his disappearance was connected to a police investigation into child abuse.
The Reverend Barry Kinsmen is believed to have taken his own life on New Year’s Eve; a note was found in his blue Ford Ka, which was abandoned at Porthmissen. His body has yet to be found.
There has been gossip in Padstow and elsewhere that Mr Kinsmen was interviewed by the police on Christmas Eve over child abuse allegations dating back 20 years.
However, police have confirmed there was no current investigation under way and Mr Kinsmen, 72, had not been interviewed on Christmas Eve or at any time last year.
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