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| Bishop Dyer was suspended in August 2022. Source: STV News |
In 2024 it ws reported that bishop Anne Dyer was to face a disciplinary tribunal after being suspended in August 2022.
In a document outlining the reasons for the decision to drop the bullying tribunal, lawyer Paul Reid KC said: "It has become apparent that the prospect of giving evidence, and in particular facing cross-examination in a public forum, is a source of anxiety for a number of potential witnesses." He added: "Given the already difficult situation in the Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney, a public trial very materially risks, whatever its outcome, of making an already difficult situation worse."
According to Mail Plus, angry parishioners in the Scottish Episcopal Church are threatening to leave while others have vowed to remove it from their wills after bullying complaints against its first female bishop were dropped.
In 2022 the bishop of Llandaff found herself in the clear after the Dean of Llandaff withdrew his charge of bullying following an extended period of sick leave.
The Vicar of Radyr at the time resigned saying that she could no longer, with integrity, knowing the many things she knows, serve in the diocese where she believed a 'culture of fear' exists.
Then there were two!
Postscripts
Four Scottish bishops urge Dyer to consider her position - Church Times
(26.10.2024)
Bishop accused of bullying now on sick leave - BBC News
Reminiscent of St Davids diocese in the Church in Wales. Another 'social worker' in clerical clothing.
Have witnesses been got at and knobbled?
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Odd isn't it that this story of Aberdeen and Orkney and 'Bewildered's' wondering that perhaps someone has been got at or knobbled, follows hard on AB's shut-down of the previous thread and unanswered question.
ReplyDeleteMenai Strait (who is seldom shut down or 'knobbled' in his informed comments) has his comment quickly removed by the Blog Administrator with the usual 'This comment has been removed by the blog administrator', but not before Baptist Trainfan on 15 Oct wrote 'This is indeed a sad and sordid story ...'. But then the screen went blank!!!
So, what was it. Why was Menai Strait blocked out? Why did Ancient Briton's blog administrator (if not he) shut the site down?
But it seems it's OK for us to continue with conjecture about why other scandals are dropped by church lawyers in Aberdeen or Llandaff. Hopefully Menai Strait will be brave enough to have a second bash at informing us of this 'sad and sordid' story otherwise knobbled might be the obvious assumption.
As frustrating as it can sometimes be to see contributions occasionally removed (especially before having seen them and taking a screenshot of particularly spicy comments), I am certainly not going to criticise AB for doing so.
DeleteHis blog, his rules, his judgement and his decision. The subject might well also have been deemed to be "off topic" but when breaking news occurs in current affairs, the only means of drawing it to AB's attention (possibly as a prompt that might lead to a whole new thread) is to append it to the latest thread, whether on or off topic.
The pot luck approach.
With apologies to AB if the expression in quotation marks is somehow unacceptable, if you are that desperate to know just Google "The crystal Methodist".
Thank you Menai Straight.
DeleteThis story is uncomfortable. I suspect it's because she's a woman that she's been misconstrued as a bully. When did we last hear of a male bishop being pursued with bullying claims? I bet she's just a woman, in a man's world, who has balls.
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Never heard of bully boy --Bazza of Llys Ego in Whitchurch?
DeleteHis bullying and deceit cost him the first female Deaness of Llandaff, a Cathedral choir as well as at least one Director of Music along with countless clergy.
Then there was "I am the accuser" Caiaphas Osborne who, although allegedly a woman, was actually accused of bullying by several other women, including the education lady from the St. Asaph diocese.
Not forgetting the big girl's blouse Gerwhine who liked bullying from the Llandaff pulpit, writing poison pen letters and describing elderly ladies and widows as subversives, although I grant you he was merely a Dean.
Then there was slippery Dick the sherry who'd been accused of bullying Martin Percy in Christchurch, another Dean.
Is that you yet again TP/untRuthy/LG/Doofus?
Darth --Insidious of Morgan's Organ fame and the missing £750k from the Cathedral accounts.
DeleteSince the departure of Caiaphas, Typhoid Mary has been remarkable if only for the lack of scandal and bad PR in the Western Mail.
Does she go anywhere or do anything? Not even a photo opportunity with a large Clarke's pie in Grange town?
@1662
DeleteI find it interesting that whenever someone says something remotely supportive of say, women as an example, they are instantly thought if as one of the few people on this blog that have any opinions on how their rights that are not outright confirmed by the Bible. Is there a reason for this?
Anyway Here's the Recipe for brownies incase you're hungry.
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My kind of woman. Love a bully me.
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Bet you do, mummy's boy.
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DeleteYou beat me to it
Of the four Scottish bishops urging Dyer to "consider her position", how many were involved in the ill-considered decision to appoint her to the Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney in the first place?
ReplyDeleteNobody has answered my question thus far but I'm certain that I recall she wasn't elected in the usual way, but elected in the same way Caiaphas was hoisted on Llandaff after the shambles of the leaky Electoral College that was responsible for the Jeffrey John affair with the added frisson of the duplicitous email from Philip Masson.
DeleteIs one's memory playing tricks?
The Scottish Episcopal Church isn't the only cowardly woke corrupt organisation that refuses to investigate and deal with matters properly.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8egz8gr8lo
Metropolitan plod ignored complaints about Mohammed Fayed.
Very similar to plod around the UK ignoring complaints of under-age white girls being abused, trafficked and gang raped by Pakistani muslims.
Who's pulling the strings and calling in favours?
Hang fire 'Menai'. You might find that the blame could rest on the shoulders of Sir Keir Stamer and the CPS who, having received preliminary reports after early investigations and the recommendations of the Met. Police, decided against further action. Its the CPS that calls the shots. Time will tell.
DeleteThe CPS can only call the shots on cases after plod has referred them for consideration.
DeleteIf I've understood matters correctly, plod only referred two.
Dozens of others were ignored by plod.
Bewildered
Try reading William.
Delete"The Metropolitan Police only asked prosecutors to decide whether to charge Mohamed Al Fayed in relation to two out of 21 women who accused him of sexual offences while he was alive, the BBC has established.
It raises serious questions about the Met’s response to women who said they were abused by the former Harrods owner, who died aged 94 last year.
Scotland Yard had refused to answer the BBC’s questions about how many women it sought charging decisions on, but the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) provided the information."
It turns out Metropolitan plod weren't doing their job for at least a decade before that, Menai Straight.
Deletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg7nk5dx0wo
More interested in bowing to the god of multicultural community relations than protecting vulnerable white girls and women.
Bewildered
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr78x0e5yzo
DeleteDishonesty in plod, who'd have thunk it?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/10/20/snp-guidance-public-bodies-24-genders/
ReplyDeleteHow many genders does the Scottish Episcopal Church say exist?
Bewildered