Divine Poison
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No one listened to him, no one believed him.
Until now.
Two days ago the bodies of ex-Jesuit priest, Raymond Lovell, aged 52, and his companion Philip George aged 39, known as Pip, were found in the remains of a disused church in Swandale, near Lensham. The two men had been missing for a fortnight and had been due to give evidence in the trial of Charles Adams, who also stands accused of the attempted murder of these two men, six months ago.
It remains to be seen if the statements they made to the police will be admissible as evidence. The official statement from the police would have us believe that Raymond and Pip died in a suicide pact as a result of media attention and exposure of their homosexual relationship. However, their friend Monica Davis, who found the two men, has made an exclusive statement to The Daily Albion in response to these assumptions by police.
“I received a message from Father Ray’s phone. Asking me to meet with him and Pip at the old St Mary’s Church in Swandale, but I knew from the smell as I approached the altar, that they were dead. They were holding each other, hidden, lying on the ivy. There is no way they decided to take their own lives, and neither of them owned a gun, so how did they die of shotgun wounds to the head and still manage to hold on to each other? It smacks of suspicious circumstances and a message being sent by whoever killed them. There’s not a chance it was suicide. They were happy, didn’t worry about being outed as gay, and were doing amazing work investigating and exposing historical child sexual abuse. They didn’t want to die, besides which, dead men don’t send text messages. When I found Ray and Pip dead, I ran for my life through the back of the ruins. I just left my car where it was and went to the nearest house.”
Monica and her husband are now in hiding under the witness protection programme and due to give evidence in the trial of Charles Adams next week.
Questions remain: who killed Raymond Lovell and Philip George?
Who is desperate enough to cover up the abuse of children and why?
How many more cases of child abuse have there been that have been disregarded or ignored?
The Daily Albion will be investigating.
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Acknowledgments
In the UK, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) was set up in 2014 following the investigations of 2012 and 2013 into the Jimmy Savile sex scandal, which brought to light serious allegations involving a number of public figures and institutions. To date the inquiry has had four different chairpersons.
Decisions taken to withdraw were made with ‘deep regret’ and cited a ‘legacy of failure’ or perceptions that the chair was in a conflicted position in terms of the individuals or establishments being investigated.
At one point twelve separate investigations were announced as part of the inquiry.
As follows:
Children in the care of Lambeth Council
Children in the care of Nottinghamshire Councils
Cambridge House, Knowl View and Rochdale Council
Child sexual abuse in the Anglican Church
Child sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church
The sexual abuse of children in custodial institutions
Child sexual abuse in residential schools
The internet and child sexual abuse
Child exploitation by organised networks
The protection of children outside the United Kingdom
Accountability and reparations for victims and survivors
Allegations of child sexual abuse linked to Westminster
In June 2017 the group Survivors of Organised and Institutional Abuse (SOIA) announced that it was formally withdrawing from the inquiry. They stated that survivors had been "totally marginalised" and that the inquiry had descended into nothing more than a costly academic report writing and literature review exercise. An IICSA spokesperson said that they regretted the withdrawal, but the inquiry would continue.
Cover-up of cover-ups…?