Justin Welby has fallen on his sword over the CofE cover-up of Smyth abuse

Justin Welby announced today that he will vacate Lambeth Palace .

It follows the fury over the Church of England ’s mishandling of the case of John Smyth , the vile abuser of boys at Christian summer camps organised by the church.

Smyth was a British barrister and moral crusader who ran Christian camps in Dorset through the 1970s .

He visited tyranny on the boys who attended.

He subjected them to traumatic physical, sexual, psychological and spiritual attacks.

Welby was quick to reveal that his late father, Sir Anthony Montague Browne , had an ancestral connection to the enslavement of people in Jamaica and Tobago .

He seemed less keen, initially, to have a real reckoning with his own responsibility for offences committed in and covered up' by the CofE.