Wednesday 9 November 2011

Carlile Report

It was published today, and Mr Cleugh and Lord Carlile gave a press conference. There were a large number of papers and TV channels present. I suspect it's going to be on the news most channels this evening - BBC London, ITV London, Channel 4, Sky, BBC R4.

I'm too exhausted to write about it in detail for now.

7 comments:

  1. Tired from making sure that you were attracting press attention for yourself, Mr. West?

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  2. It's available here: http://www.stbenedicts.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/2011-11-07-FINALREPORT_BY_LORD_CARLILE_OF_BERRIEW26102011_Q1.pdf

    Some initial thoughts:

    It's broadly scathing about the school's (lack of) safeguarding policy and consistent failure to report offenders to the appropriate authorities, allowing them to reoffend.

    It names Dom Anthony Gee - this is a new one. I find this surprising, and note that the outcome (if any) is either nfa by the police or "not known".

    It confirms that the recent charge against Dom Gregory Chillman concerned 2 female pupils (presumably at St Augustine's).

    It actually states that this blog has been "most helpful" in directing people his way. I certainly wasn't expecting that!

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  3. Well done Jonathan, great work.

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  4. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-15650420

    Well done Jonathan, I've been following your campaign for over a year now. As someone who had his life overshadowed by my time at St Benedict's for many years - not through abuse but through the widespread bullying and hypocrisy which came directly from the personalities of those bastards Chillman, Pearce and Soper - I'm grateful to you for giving me satisfaction if not closure. If there is a hell I know they are bound for it.

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  5. BBC online misquotes from Lord Carlile's report:
    "It added: "In a school where there has been abuse, mostly - but not exclusively - as a result of the activities of the monastic community, any semblance of a conflict of interest, of lack of independent scrutiny, must be removed"."
    In fact, Lord Carlile's report (No. 26) has:
    "... as a result of the activities of members of the monastic community ...".

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  6. Same mistake, viz. "of members" omitted, made in today's article in the Guardian entitled, "Fugitive Catholic priest urged to turn himself in".

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  7. Congratulations! Well done, Jonathan!

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