ENGLAND
The Standard (Chester, England)
October 17, 2017
By Steve Creswell
A FORMER bishop of Chester was “almost certainly” a prolific abuser of children, a law firm acting on behalf of alleged victims has said.
Specialists at Slater and Gordon have been working with a number of men and women who claimed to have been abused by the late Bishop Hubert Victor Whitsey in the 1970s and 1980s.
In total eight women and five men have made complaints about the Anglican clergyman, who died in 1987 at the age of 71.
Cheshire Police conducted a thorough investigation into the allegations and have now concluded that Whitsey would be brought in for questioning, if he were alive today.
However, chiefs have stressed that this is no indication of his guilt.
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