The Church of England is setting up a multi-million-pound compensation fund designed to funnel money to victims of historic sex abuse by bishops, clergy and lay church workers. Its ‘interim pilot support scheme’ will make the first payouts from a compensation process...
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Survivors of multi-millionaire paedophile priest Michael Studdert may be entitled to part of his estate.
Authorities are searching for victims of a multi-millionaire paedophile priest who may be entitled to part of his estate. Michael Studdert died on 9 August 2017. He was a convicted paedophile. A website created by Nockolds Solictors has been made live in accordance...
Portsmouth ex-choirmaster Mark Burgess charged with 73 child sex offences
Mark Burgess a Portsmouth Ex-Choirmaster was initially charged with 58 counts in February of this year which included indecent assault, gross indecency with a child, inciting sexual activity with a child, and sexual touching. Burgess has now been charged with 15 more...
Meirion Grifiths Former Priest – Jailed for sexual abuse
Former Priest, Meirion Griffiths was convicted of ‘devastating’ historic sexual offences was sentenced on the 21 February 2020 to eight years in prison. Meirion Griffiths, 81, was unanimously found guilty of three charges of indecent assault by a jury in January of...
Former monk at Catholic boarding school jailed for abusing boys
A former monk at a Catholic boarding school who continued to abuse young boys after confessing to having sexual contact with a pupil has been jailed for more than 20 years. Peter Turner, 80, sexually abused two boys after he was forced to leave Ampleforth College, in...
Peter Turner: Former Ampleforth College monk jailed for child abuse
A former monk at a Catholic boarding school who sexually abused three boys aged under 13 has been jailed for more than 20 years. Peter Turner, 80, of Redcar, admitted 14 charges including indecent assault, gross indecency and another serious sexual offence. The...
Warnham church ‘predatory paedophile’ jailed for historic child abuse
Music teacher Andrew Wilson convinced parents to let him spend time alone with their children and then abused them, Lewes Crown Court heard today. Many of the historic offences took place while he worked at St Margaret’s Church in Warnham. He was convicted of 19 sex...
Chichester vicar jailed for ‘this is what God wants’ abuse
A former vicar who sexually abused a woman and a girl, who he told "it was what God wanted", has been jailed for eight years. Meirion Griffiths, 81, was convicted of four counts of indecent assault last month following a six-day retrial. He had moved to Perth in...
Michael Pulsford jailed for Christian camp child abuse
Michael Pulsford, 68, abused three boys and three girls while he was a Christian youth group leader between 1974 and 1989. The victims, who were aged between 12 and 15, were abused in Wiltshire, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Pulsford admitted 16 counts of indecent...
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