Beatles church vicar promoted AFTER he was caught abusing choirboy

LIVERPOOL (United Kingdom)
Liverpool Echo

September 5, 2017

Henry Vaughan

[Canon John Roberts’ victim is now taking action against the Church of England]

A vicar at the “Beatles church”, where John Lennon met Paul McCartney, was allowed to carry on working for 24 year after he was convicted of abusing a choirboy.

Rev John Roberts, who was based at St Peter’s Church in Woolton , Liverpool, was fined £500 when he was sentenced for two counts of indecently assaulting a 15-year-old boy in 1989.

But instead of being defrocked, Roberts was eventually promoted to the position of Canon before he retired in 2013.

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