UNITED KINGDOM/AUSTRALIA
The Australian
MICHAEL MCKENNA
ReporterBrisbane
@McKennaattheOz
British police have interviewed Australian victims of child abuse for an international investigation into an alleged cover-up involving one of the most senior former Anglican clergymen in the world.
North Yorkshire Police is investigating Lord David Hope of Thornes, 76, for a possible offence of misconduct in public office over his handling of complaints of abuse by a fellow senior clergyman in Queensland and Britain.
The late Reverend Robert Waddington raped and beat students at a north Queensland Anglican boarding school in the 1960s before returning to Britain where he abused choirboys as the Dean of Manchester.
Waddington’s abuse and the church’s failure to tell authorities of the complaints were exposed in a joint investigation by The Australian and The Times of London newspapers in 2013.
The revelations sparked a year-long, church-commissioned inquiry, headed by sitting English judge Sally Cahill, which slammed Lord Hope over his response to 1999 and 2003 complaints of past abuse by victims in Britain and Australia.
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