LONDON (ENGLAND)
Daily Mail
July 20, 2018
By Alexander Robertson and Martin Robinson
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5972855/Prince-Charles-continued-close-friendship-paedophile-priest-Peter-Ball-tells-enquiry.html
• A written statement from Prince Charles will be read out at the inquiry next week
• Ball, who has boasted of being a confidant of Charles, was jailed in October 2015
• Heir to the throne says he sent him ‘small gifts and money’ after being deceived
• Former Bishop of Lewes had sexually abused 18 young men over three decades
• He was released in February last year after serving half his sentence behind bars
The Prince of Wales sent a disgraced former bishop ‘small gifts and money’ – but didn’t know he was a paedophile, the heir to the throne has told an inquiry.
The heir to the throne remained friends with Peter Ball, now 86, because he did not understand that the clergyman’s caution relating to gross indecency was an admission of guilt, it was reported today.
Charles was in contact with Bishop Peter Ball for more than 20 years until he was convicted in 2015 for sexual abuse offences.
Ball resigned in 1993 after a police investigation into abuse of boys and young men and accepted a caution over it – but told the Prince it was because someone with a grudge was ‘persecuting’ him.
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