A senior Jersey political leader has written to the Archbishop of Canterbury accusing the Church of England of suppressing a report that may document misconduct by the Bishop of Winchester. In a sharply worded letter dated 2 Nov 2015, Sir Philip Bailhache, (pictured) a Senator in the Jersey States Assembly called upon Archbishop Justin Welby to honor the mandate given to former High Court Judge Dame Heather Steel and release her findings into abuse allegations made against the Dean of Jersey and the subsequent response by the bishop and diocese.
On 8 March 2013 the Rt. Rev. Tim Dakin, Bishop of Winchester, suspended the Very Rev. Robert Key, following an investigation into a safeguarding complaint made by an adult woman, known as “HG”, who accused the dean of not responding appropriately to her complaints that a lay leader had acted inappropriately towards her.
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