INDIA
Premier
Sat 21 Nov 2015
By Aaron James
Judges in India have called for a former Church of England vicar to stand trial over claims he sexually abused a 15-year-old boy in the country twice.
According to the Daily Mail, Revd Jonathan Robinson is accused of abusing the boy in hostels in the Indian capital Delhi in 2011. The boy was under Mr Robinson’s care at a children’s home in Vallioor, south India, which he founded in 1998.
The home was part of The Grail Trust UK, a British charity also founded by Mr Robinson. In a career of more than forty years, Revd Robinson worked at churches in London, Surrey, Bath and Herefordshire before his retirement from that form of ministry in 2001.
He left the country for Wales before Indian authorities could issue an arrest warrant for him, and has since been on an Interpol “wanted” list.
Indian judges have decided to lift this status however, in the hope that Revd Robinson will return to India to stand trial.
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