Scottish Episcopal Church

Independent HR report finds that abuser Anne Dyer behaved in unchristian manner

Anne Dyer continues to cling on to her post despite the Scottish Episcopal Church’s Procurator, Paul Reid KC, having determined that there is sufficient evidence to convict her of abuse, including of a disabled person.

Four of the five other members of the College of Bishops indicated that they had lost confidence in Dyer following Reid’s determination. They wrote to Dyer to suggest that she ought to step down. Dyer claims that this was “unchristian”.  

Dyer herself was found to have behaved in an unchristian manner by an independent HR professional, Sarah Gray, Director of consultancy Pulse HR. Gray was tasked by the Diocese with investigating allegations Dyer had made against a member of the Diocese, who she alleged had threatened her.

Gray found that Dyer’s allegations against the member of the Diocese were baseless. She went on to find that Dyer’s own behaviour had been “difficult to reconcile with the Christian values espoused by the church”.

The report, which is stamped “confidential”, can be read here.

An anonymous member of the Diocese said, “Dyer has no class whatsoever. The rumour is that she attempted to pressure Sarah Gray into altering her independent report to paint her in a better light.

“How she could possibly think a majority of people in the Diocese would be comfortable with her – an established abuser – returning to her role is beyond me”.

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  1. JusticeforDyervictims avatar
    JusticeforDyervictims

    It is NOT a rumour that Sarah Grey of Pulse HR was pressured into altering her report to present Anne Dyer in a more favourable light, it is a documented fact.

    It was reported in The Times in 2021 that ‘Sarah Grey, an HR specialist, confirmed she has been urged to make her findings more favourable to Dyer, 64. She said the bishop and Graham Robertson, the diocesan chancellor, wrote to trustees indicating they disagreed with some of what she had written’.

    ‘The trustees then asked if I wanted to revise my report and I said no. What they [Dyer and Robertson] were trying to do was to change the tone of the report in a way that made it potentially less damaging to the bishop.’

    Grey said Dyer appeared to be surprised that the document was critical of her. “I don’t think my report was what the bishop wanted it to be,” she said. “I think I was expected to toe the line.”

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  2. Marian Birch avatar
    Marian Birch

    I don’t think it is a very good or professional report – in fact I think it is a rather sloppy piece of work – illustrated perhaps by the fact that it several times gets wrong the date of the events in the church service. ie It refers to them as taking place on
    What happened in St Mary’s on 11.10.21’… slightly difficult for a report that was produced in March 2021

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    1. Anonymous avatar
      Anonymous

      I don’t think some typos, etc. take away from the substance of the report. That’s especially so when you reference it against the wider pattern of findings against Dyer and reports of her misconduct.

      I think the date you reference is just a typo – isn’t it meant to be 11 October 2020 as opposed to 2021?

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