A bishop who sits in the House of Lords allegedly denied serious claims made by a victim of stalking and contradicted the findings of an independent HR investigation. Last year, Venessa Pinto pled guilty to “stalking, involving serious distress or harm” of local assistant church warden Jay Hulme. Pinto had been employed as a lay preacher by the Church of England’s diocese of Leicester. An “independent HR expert” found Pinto was responsible for the abuse against Hulme. But bishop of Leicester Martyn Snow (pictured), who sits by right in the House of Lords as a ‘lord spiritual’, contradicted the findings and failed to uphold the complaint. Snow is a favourite to replace Justin Welby as archbishop of Canterbury. Welby resigned last year after a review revealed he “could and should” have done more in response to the sadistic abuse by John Smyth. ‘Devastating campaign of stalking and harassment’ According to the BBC, Pinto conducted a “devastating campaign of stalking and harassment” against Hulme, who is gay, after he rejected her romantic overtures in 2021. In …