In the context of a parish within which there was great division, the Tribunal found that the incumbent had, after a vestry meeting, removed papers from and belonging to the vestry secretary and refused to return them. Although the Tribunal accepted that an unseemly tussle had occurred involving the incumbent and a number of members of the vestry committee, further allegations of assault and causing fear and alarm were not made out on the balance of probabilities. The Tribunal expressed regret that the complaints committee had drawn the terms of the complaint too narrowly, such that it was not possible for the Bishop of Down and Dromore to give evidence concerning the subject matter of the complaint. The incumbent was deprived of his office for a period of one year, with a 25% reduction in salary. He was permitted to remain in the rectory for this period. [RA]