UNITED KINGDOM
The Northern Echo

THE ARCHBISHOP of York has appointed a judge to head an inquiry into the handling of allegations of child abuse by a former senior clergyman.

Judge Sally Cahill QC is to chair an independent inquiry into issues surrounding reports that the Very Reverend Robert Waddington, who died in 2007, groomed and abused a chorister in Manchester in the 1980s.

The former Dean of Manchester Cathedral is also said to have targeted a pupil at a boarding school in Queensland, Australia, where he was headteacher in the 1960s.

According to an investigation by a national newspaper, Lord Hope of Thornes was informed of the two claims in 1999 and 2003, while he was Archbishop of York.