Clergy burnt church files after being accused of covering up abuse, inquiry hears
The current dean of Worcester, Peter Atkinson, was chancellor of Chichester Cathedral at the time, and told the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse that Treadgold came back to the deanery after he had retired and burnt files that were in the basement.
What I remember of the episode is that he returned to the deanery, which was then empty, removed a number of files from the deanery basement and had a fire in the garden,' Atkinson told the inquiry today.
'I don't know what the files were,' he added.
'It is a bit odd that he moved away and then came back to do this. It was sufficiently troubling for us to mention this to the police.'...