(Late service: bishop says, “Sorry for heartache.”)Archbishop Alasdair Hube has issued an apology to the parents of disembowelled teenager Martin “Jolly” Jollinson. The climbdown follows a week of anguish during which the bishop said he was not to blame for the happy-go-lucky youngster’s untimely end while playing with friends in a hole.
The trouble came when Bishop Hube held a service “to pray for Martin.” But the prayers, according to Martin’s father, came “much too late.”
“Twelve days ago, a well placed prayer might have made all the difference,” said an angry Mr Riddling Jollinson, “but now it’s just so much wasted oration. The words could have been better spent castigating outsiders, or pooh-poohing the artistic achievements of our age.”
Police are currently trying to recreate little Martin’s last movements - with the help of a police contortionist.
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