AFTER the recent sentencing of paedophile Church of England (CofE) minister Philip Aspinall to 23 years in prison for multiple counts of indecent assault on a male and a separate charge of indecency with a child, the Diocese of Coventry issued a self-exculpatory statement remarkable more for what it didn’t say than for what it did.
As the trial at Warwick crown court heard, the offences were committed between 1991 and 2000. Aspinall is now 73.