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Devon Live

October 17, 2017

By Anita Merritt

Parishioner calls for Bishop of Exeter to stand in pulpit and apologise for the cover-up that allowed Peter Cranch to repeatedly assault a choirboy

The Bishop of Exeter is being asked to apologise in person to the congregation of a church where a known paedophile was installed as a vicar.

Rev Peter Cranch was known to have abused boys in Cornwall and Devon in the 1970s before the church moved him to All Saints Church in Exmouth, where he went on to subject a choirboy to a horrific catalogue of abuse, sexually assaulting him hundreds of times.

In 2004, Cranch was sentenced to eight years in prison for serious sexual assaults against the boy. Then aged 57, he was found guilty of six charges of assaulting a male under 16, four of a serious sexual assault and…