UNITED KINGDOM
Western Daily Press
A retired Church of England bishop, one of two clergymen arrested by police investigating historic allegations of child sex abuse, was released last night on medical grounds.
Peter Ball, 80, was held at his home near Langport, Somerset, on suspicion of eight sex offences against eight boys and young men aged from 12 to their early 20s in East Sussex and elsewhere in the late 1980s and 1990s, sources said.
Sussex Police said last night that he was released at his home on medical advice and it was their intention to interview him at a later date.
He has in the past described Prince Charles as a ‘loyal friend’ and lived for a decade in the Somerset village of Aller in a Duchy of Cornwall property after he resigned from the church in mysterious circumstances in 1993.
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