The sister of a victim of disgraced paedophile Bishop Peter Ball has claimed his ‘friends in high places’ like Prince Charles are ‘categorically to blame’ for her brother’s death. Neil Todd met the then Bishop of Gloucester in 1993 at 16 years old while acting as his trainee – and was the first victim to tell senior clergy about Ball’s sex crimes. Neil took his own life in 2012 at the age of 38, in despair at being ‘repeatedly ignored’ and ‘continuously silenced by authorities’ after reporting the crimes. In the new BBC2 documentary Exposed: The Church’s Darkest Secret, his sister Mary told of how when the case resurfaced in 2012, her brother couldn’t ‘go through the ordeal’ again. She claimed the systematic abuse of the church was ‘categorically responsible’ for his death, as well as Ball’s friendships with people in powerful positions, such as Prince Charles and former prime minister Margaret Thatcher. The sister of Neil Todd (pictured age 16), a victim of disgraced paedophile Bishop Peter Ball, has claimed the death of her brother was ‘categorically’ down to the systematic abuse within the church and Ball’s ‘powerful friends’ Neil met the Bishop of Gloucester (pictured) in 1993 at 16 years old while acting… Read full this story
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