Today at the Central Criminal Court the former Bishop of Lewes and Bishop of Gloucester, Peter Ball, was sentenced to 32 months for misconduct in public office and 15 months for indecent assaults, to run concurrently. Ball, who is 83, had pleaded guilty to charges of misconduct in public office between 1977 and 1992, indecent assault on a boy aged 12 or 13 in 1978 and indecent assault on a man aged 19 or 20 between 1980 and 1982. You can read Wilkie J’s sentencing remarks here.
Former Bishop of Gloucester Peter Ball sentenced to 32 months’ imprisonment
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