Bishop “abuse” probe: Claims were made against ex-Bishop of Stepney the late Trevor Huddleston

UNITED KINGDOM
Mirror

Secret police file reveals that parents of four boys made complaints in 1974. He told cops “I touched their ­bottoms… but there is nothing indecent”

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.”

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