The Church of England is facing demands for more resignations over the 'shameful' failure to help child abuse victims today after the Archbishop of Canterbury's dramatic departure.
Justin Welby is facing calls to quit the House of Lords
Across five decades in three different countries, involving as many as 130 boys and young men in the UK and Africa, Smyth is said to have subjected his victims to traumatic physical, sexual, psychological, and spiritual attacks, permanently marking their lives.
Pressure on Welby had intensified since the publication last week of a damning report on the Church of England’s cover-up of abuse by John Smyth in the UK in the late 1970s and early 80s, and later in Zimbabwe and, it is suspected, South Africa.