Dean was still preying on choirboys when Church ruled him too ill to be a risk

UNITED KINGDOM
The Times

Sean O’Neill Crime Editor

Last updated at 12:01AM, May 16 2013

A senior Church of England cleric suspected of being a serial child abuser was a governor of the scandal-hit Chetham’s School of Music for nine years and preyed on its pupils.

New evidence from abuse victims suggests that the Very Rev Robert Waddington, a former Dean of Manchester Cathedral, was still pursuing young boys at the time the Church decided that he was too ill and frail to pose a threat to children.

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