The Bishop of Fulham has decided to proceed with an investigation into a priest at the heart of a safeguarding complaint by a man known as Survivor N – despite a church lawyer’s recommendation.

Rt Rev Jonathan Baker was tasked with making the final decision into a CDM (Clergy Discipline Measure) complaint brought against a priest in the Diocese of London. The Church of England announced in January that the complaint, which had first been brought in 2020, would be reopened, despite the incoming Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally saying it had been “fully dealt with”. It followed a Premier Christian News investigation into the case.

Bishop Jonathan’s decision to proceed has overridden a recommendation from the Diocesan Registrar Stuart Jones to dismiss the case. Stuart Jones was also the Diocesan Registrar tasked with handling N’s original complaint in 2020. N heard nothing about the outcome to this complaint until five years later, when informed by Premier.

N told Premier that it felt like a “sick joke” and a “stitch up” that the same person who threw out his original complaint against an alleged priest had been told to investigate the reopened case … read it all at Premier Christian News