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To: THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY

JUSTICE FOR BISHOP GEORGE BELL OF CHICHESTER

(1) To call on the Church of England to allow a fuller investigation before considering the case against Bishop Bell closed. This includes re-examining the evidence against Bishop Bell.

(2) To ensure fair and just procedures are in place for the future.

Why is this important?

The Church has a responsibility to ensure fair and just procedures are in place so that evidence can be properly examined in any future investigation.

How it will be delivered

The Petition will be delivered to the Bishop of Chichester at the Bishop's Palace on Saturday December 2 2017

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Updates

2016-08-09 09:20:52 +0100

"RIP THE LID OFF THIS CAN OF WORMS"

~ Richard W. Symonds on the Bishop Bell Scandal

https://richardwsymonds.wordpress.com/

2016-08-09 09:09:45 +0100

"BUZZI WAS CITED AMONG THE PAEDOPHILIA CASES LISTED AT THE END OF 'SPOTLIGHT', THE OSCAR-WINNING 2015 FILM BASED ON THE BOSTON GLOBE NEWSPAPER'S INVESTIGATION OF SEXUAL ABUSES BY CATHOLIC PRIESTS, AND EFFORTS BY THE BOSTON ARCHDIOCESE TO COVER THEM UP"

- CAREY LODGE - CHRISTIAN TODAY

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/spotlight.priest.hangs.himself.in.jail.after.fresh.paedophilia.allegations/92662.htm

2016-08-09 00:52:24 +0100

"ABUSED VICTIMS HAVE ACCUSED POLITICIANS AS WELL AS THE ROMAN CATHOLIC AND ANGLICAN CHURCHES, COUNCILS AND SCHOOLS OF FAILING TO DEAL WITH ALLEGATIONS. IN A NUMBER OF CASES, THEY SAID INSTITUTIONS HAD ACTIVELY COVERED UPto CASES AT THE BEHEST OF POWERFUL ESTABLISHMENT FIGURES, INCLUDING SENIOR MP'S, SPIES AND POLICE OFFICERS"

MARK WOODS - CHRISTIAN TODAY - AUGUST 5 2016

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/blow.to.victims.as.goddard.quits.as.head.of.child.abuse.inquiry/92369.htm

2016-08-08 09:29:17 +0100

"THE DAYS OF BISHOPS SHUFFLING GUILTY CLERGY FROM PARISH TO PARISH INSTEAD OF REPORTING THEM TO POLICE ARE GONE" - MARK WOODS - CHRISTIAN TODAY - AUGUST 5 2016

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/the.former.goddard.inquiry.is.it.time.for.victims.to.trust.the.system.again/92425.htm

2016-08-08 02:09:05 +0100

"NOW DAME LOWELL [GODDARD] HAS QUIT, THE GREAT CHILD ABUSE INQUIRY SHOULD STOP TOO" - CHARLES MOORE - DAILY TELEGRAPH

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/05/now-dame-lowell-has-quit-the-great-child-abuse-inquiry-should-st/

"In advance of Goddard, the Church of England settled out of court with a woman who said she had been abused as a child between 1949 and 1953 by George Bell, the heroic anti-Nazi wartime Bishop of Chichester. The Church accepted that he had abused her. It soon turned out that no case for Bell had ever been heard by the Church and no evidence or witnesses of his life at that time had been called. The reputation of a dead, defenceless, good man had been sacrificed in a panic"

2016-08-07 18:16:16 +0100

PAEDOPHILE INVESTIGATION "WAS NOT IN THE PUBLIC'S INTEREST BECAUSE IT COULD 'DESTABILISE NATIONAL SECURITY'"

The Belfast Telegraph reported last year:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/royal-family-member-was-investigated-as-part-of-paedophile-ring-before-coverup-excop-says-31088592.html

The former Metropolitan Police officer says he was told by a detective that the investigation into the ring, which was also claimed to include an MP, was shut down for national security reasons.
“I was in a car with two other vice squad officers. … The detective said he had just had a major child abuse investigation shut down by the CPS regarding a royal and an MP,” he told the Sunday Mirror newspaper.
“He did not mention names, but he said the CPS had said it was not in the public’s interest because it ‘could destabilise national security’.”

http://breakingdownthnews.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/royal-family-member-was-part-of.html#.V6conRGDkaw.facebook

2016-08-07 18:01:19 +0100

FOLLOWING THE APOLOGY BY SUSSEX POLICE TO THE FAMILY OF BISHOP BELL, AND NO APOLOGY BY THE DIOCESE OF CHICHESTER, THERE WILL BE A "SAY SORRY" VIGIL OUTSIDE CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL BY ST. RICHARD'S STATUE - NEXT SUNDAY, AUGUST 14 2016 - MIDDAY TO 1PM.

https://richardwsymonds.wordpress.com/2016/08/06/say-sorry-vigil-outside-chichester-cathedral-sunday-august-14/

2016-08-07 17:56:56 +0100

BISHOP ADMITS WHAT HE SAID WAS UNTRUE, AND INTENDS TO CORRECT IT IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS" - PETER HITCHENS BLOG

http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2016/08/silenced-by-our-boot-faced-commissars-of-thought-crime-1.html

2016-08-07 17:52:13 +0100

AV4TAR COMMENT ON PREMIER

http://www.premier.org.uk/News/UK/Police-to-apologise-to-Bishop-George-Bell-s-family?utm_source=Premier

This business is far from finished. There are a number of high-profile people who are chasing justice. There was no evidence offered in the Bishop's defence. Apparently some of the details given do not appear to stand up to scrutiny: if the young girl's allegations are true they could even have pointed to someone else being the culprit. The CofE appears to be stonewalling over the way it dealt with the whole affair.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

2016-08-07 17:47:25 +0100

“BISHOP GEORGE BELL HAS BEEN 'THROWN UNDER THE BUS' TO PROTECT THE DARKEST CORNERS OF THE BRITISH ESTABLISHMENT"

Richard W. Symonds
The Bell Society

2016-08-07 17:43:38 +0100

GODDARD INQUIRY "THROWN INTO DISARRAY" FOLLOWING RESIGNATION, LEAVING INVESTIGATION OF THE DIOCESE OF CHICHESTER UNINVESTIGATED

https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2016/12-august/news/uk/justice-goddard-steps-down-as-head-of-child-abuse-inquiry

THE Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales (IICSA) was thrown into disarray on Thursday night after the New Zealand judge brought in to chair it, Justice Lowell Goddard, resigned….Among the 13 separate investigations launched by the Inquiry, is one into the Anglican churches in England and Wales…it will study “the experience of the Diocese of Chichester, where there have been multiple allegations of sexual abuse, and numerous investigations and reviews.”

2016-08-05 18:13:06 +0100

"POLICE SAY SORRY OVER BISHOP BELL. BBC SAY SORRY OVER BISHOP BELL. AND THE CHURCH?" - GATWICK CITY NEWS - AUGUST 5 2106

https://wordpress.com/stats/day/richardwsymonds.wordpress.com

2016-08-05 00:09:20 +0100

DAME LOWELL GODDARD RESIGNS AS HEAD OF THE GODDARD INQUIRY INTO CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE - WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT AND WITHOUT EXPLANATION

http://www.itv.com/news/2016-08-04/dame-lowell-goddard-resigns-as-head-of-independent-inquiry-into-child-sexual-abuse/

2016-08-01 09:53:47 +0100

"ARCHBISHOPS DIFFER ON GEORGE BELL CASE" - CHURCH OF ENGLAND NEWSPAPER

http://www.churchnewspaper.com/download-newspapers/non-members?wlfrom=%2F45129%2Farchives

By CEN on 14/07/2016

LORD CAREY is among the signatories of a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury urging that independence is ‘imperative’ in the George Bell review. The letter comes in response to a statement released by the Church of England on 28 June, announcing an independent review into the case against the wartime Bishop of Chichester, commissioned […]

2016-07-31 22:58:37 +0100

COMMENT BY 'BONCE' IN "CHURCH OF ENGLAND SMEARS SAINTS AND SHIELDS SCOUNDRELS"

http://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/jules-gomes-the-c-of-e-smears-saints-shields-scoundrels/

As someone who has come to faith recently from a non-Christian upbringing, and married to a wonderful God-fearing strict Eastern European lady, I have a unique perspective on this.
I have come to the conclusion that the C of E is a corrupted organisation that is highly political, and does not put God and God's love at the centre of everything it does.
Now any church associated with the C of E, or any church with a minister trained through the C of E, is compromised.
The organised church is collapsing because its a vassal of the establishment (media, government, educational establishment)...and state security services - Ed