UNITED KINGDOM
Belfast Telegraph

Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey delayed a “proper investigation” into a senior priest’s paedophile crimes for two decades by failing to pass information to police, an inquiry heard.

A lawyer for some victims of Peter Ball, the disgraced former Bishop of Lewes and Bishop of Gloucester, made the claim to Dame Lowell Goddard’s public inquiry into child sex abuse.

Ball, 84, was jailed for 32 months in October 2015 after pleading guilty to a string of historical sex offences.

But 22 years previously, in 1993, he was investigated and let off with a caution for gross indecency by police after abusing a trainee monk.

Richard Scorer, who represents 17 victims, made the claim about Lord Carey while an application for three of them, all men, to be “core participants” in the inquiry at a preliminary hearing in the Royal Courts of Justice.