UNITED KINGDOM/AUSTRALIA
BBC News
Sexual abuse complaints against a Church of England cleric were not referred to police by then Archbishop of York, David Hope, it has emerged.
The Times said the now Lord Hope was made aware of the allegations against the former Dean of Manchester, Robert Waddington, in 1999 and again in 2003.
It involved an Australian school pupil and a Manchester Cathedral choirboy.
Lord Hope insisted he acted strictly in line with child protection policy in force in the Church at the time.
Banned as priest
Allegations were put to Lord Hope in 1999 that Mr Waddington had abused a pupil several decades earlier at a school in Queensland where he was head teacher.
Then in 2003, a former choirboy at Manchester Cathedral claimed he had been abused by Mr Waddington during the 1980s.
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