UNITED KINGDOM
Yorkshire Post
By Martin Slack
Published on 10/04/2013
A FORMER bishop accused of covering up a sex abuse case involving a vulnerable orphan and a vicar has rejected a judge’s criticism and said remarks about his involvement were “unjust”.
The Rt Rev David Lunn, now 83 and retired, was the Bishop of Sheffield in 1987 when vicar John Yallop was found to be abusing a 16-year-old girl, but the crime did not come to light until last year.
Yallop, now 65, has been jailed for three years, but Judge Simon Lawler QC, who heard the case, said social workers and “church elders” involved at the time should “reproach themselves”.
Speaking at his home in Wetwang, East Yorkshire, yesterday, Bishop Lunn told the Yorkshire Post: “I think the judge’s remarks were unjust, but I can understand why he made them.
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