JUSTICE FOR BISHOP GEORGE BELL OF CHICHESTER

"NO SMOKE, NO FIRE" - 'THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DAVE JONES'

https://www.amazon.co.uk/No-Smoke-Fire-Autobiography-Jones/dp/1908051191

"The parallels of each case are both unmistakable and disturbing"

~ Richard W. Symonds

BISHOP OF CHICHESTER DEFENDS HIS DECISION TO NAME BISHOP BELL (VIA GABRIELLE HIGGINS, CHICHESTER DIOCESAN SECRETARY) - JANUARY 2016

http://www.lawandreligionuk.com/2016/01/22/bishop-george-bell-points-on-a-complex-case/

RWS COMMENT (Hat-Tip : MARK T.)

"Fiat justitia ruat caelum (Let justice be done though the heavens fall)(Justice, regardless of consequences). In 1933, Judge Horton quoted the Latin phrase in the Scottsboro Boys trial when explaining his judicial decision, even though he knew it would end his career"

~ Richard W. Symonds

INVESTIGATION INTO FAILINGS BY THE ANGLICAN CHURCH - THE GODDARD INQUIRY - APRIL 22 2016

https://www.iicsa.org.uk/investigations/investigation-into-failings-by-the-anglican-church?show_hearings

RWS COMMENT

"The Church is vital and critical for a community's survival and well-being, but it must have just and fair systems in place by which it can correct itself when mistakes are made"

~ Richard W. Symonds

RWS COMMENT

"This Petition is too serious to ignore"

~ Richard W. Symonds

NR COMMENT

"Without cast iron evidence, it is morally wrong to accuse any one of any sort of crime"

~ Nathaniel Ramanaden
https://www.facebook.com/Justice-for-Bishop-George-Bell-577597159058935/

GD COMMENT

"I have signed, and you will be much heartened by the current volume of supporters - almost 800 as I write this. The momentum is building..."

~ Lord Geoffrey Dear - Signatory of The George Bell Group
http://www.georgebellgroup.org/george-bell-group/

(Writer & Broadcaster Sir Robin Day said of Geoffrey Dear : "The best known and most respected police officer of his generation")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Dear,_Baron_Dear

TT COMMENT

As a retired Civil Law Lawyer, I endorse the call for the issue against Bell to be properly aired. The Government happily recreates Inquiries, even Inquests, that run for years with the self-evident intent that unwanted History can be rewritten to sate "Public" demand.
Until I read this analysis of the "evidence" against him, the limited media exposure of the Church's behaviour simply merged with the ongoing incidence of clerical wrongdoing.
As seems to me, beyond the balance of probability and, on this review, beyond reasonable doubt, Bell is condemned by the appalling lack of judgment of Both the senior Clerics and their professional advisers but not wrong-doing on his part.
If this is not reviewed, it merely confirms that our leaders and those whom they appoint to their sinecures are pygmies - and who deserve the obloquy and contempt of those who look back at History

~ Thomas Tidswell

"GEORGE BELL, BISHOP OF CHICHESTER. CHURCH, STATE, AND RESISTANCE IN THE AGE OF DICTATORSHIP" BY DR. ANDREW CHANDLER

"The allegation of 2015 is anomalous. Indeed, it seems to exist in its own world, evidently uncorroborated by any other independent source. It also remains unique, for apparently no other such accusation has arisen. In sum, we are asked to invest an entire authority in one testimony and to dismiss all the materials by which we have come to know the historical George Bell as mere figments of reputation. The corollary of such a method may now be witnessed in the hasty removal of his name or image from public institutions and commemorations. It may simply be observed here that such iconoclastic activities are not unknown to historians of other, far darker, times and contexts"

(Appendix 3 - Postlude : History and Allegation - Pages 195 to 199)

MS COMMENT

"Finished Andrew Chandler's biography of Bishop George Bell. Masterly distillation of a life very widely admired. Judicious too"

Michael Sadgrove @Sadgrovem

https://www.amazon.co.uk/George-Bell-Bishop-Chichester-Dictatorship/dp/0802872271

RWS COMMENT

"The Church should be charged with the attempted murder of a Bishop's reputation"

~ Richard W. Symonds

'Murder in the Cathedral'
http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2016/04/reposted-murder-in-the-cathedral-explains-why-you-should-sign-the-george-bell-petition-.html

BISHOP GEORGE BELL - WIKIPEDIA - "CHILD ABUSE ALLEGATIONS"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bell_(bishop)

"MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL" BY PETER HITCHENS

http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2016/04/reposted-murder-in-the-cathedral-explains-why-you-should-sign-the-george-bell-petition-.html