UNITED KINGDOM
Gloucestershire Live
By Janet Hughes | Posted: February 08, 2017
Victims have reacted with anger that a former Bishop of Gloucester jailed for sex abuse has been released before a Church of England report into how he escaped justice for over two decades.
Peter Ball, a former Bishop of Gloucester who was jailed for abusing young men, has been released after serving half of his 32-month sentence.
During his trial, there were allegations of an establishment cover up to protect Ball, now aged 84, who admitted abusing 18 young men between 1977 and 1992.
Now questions are being asked why he has been set free before the results of the independent Church of England inquiry into his activities ordered by the Archbishop of Canterbury, have been published.
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