A vicar involved in a bitter feud with the choir at her historic church has accused her Bishop of conducting an 'unethical, immoral and self-serving' campaign against her.
The rev Catherine Relf-Pennington, 64, alleged that the Bishop of Norwich the Right Rev Graham Usher had taken the side of 'a small circle of white, wealthy, strongly interconnected men' rather than supporting his own clergy.
In an extraordinary attack, she accused him of hypocrisy by stating that he had 'hounded' her just after he had publicly attacked 'the dark forces of cruelty' who targeted TV personality Caroline Flack before she took her own life.
The bust-up began after Ms Relf-Pennington faced a string of complaints about her supposed 'authoritarian style' in 2017, soon after she was appointed as vicar of 12th century Wymondham Abbey, Norfolk.
They included claims that she assaulted a chorister after banning her from the choir and reversed her truck into a parked car in the Abbey car park, causing a 'six-inch-long gash', before driving away.
Ms Relf-Pennington in turn claimed to have been bullied and subjected to false accusations by choristers who were 'anti-woman priests'.
She has also alleged that she has received poison pen letters and had the tyres of her truck slashed.
The rev Catherine Pennington who has been fiercely criticised by some of her choristers at 12th century Wymondham Abbey
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