apology

Ms Nyachuru told the BBC it was not until 2021 that she received a written apology from Welby about the death of her brother, in which he admitted that Smyth was responsible and the church had failed her family.

She wrote back describing the apology as "too little, too late" and is now calling for other senior church leaders who failed to intervene to prevent Smyth's abuse to resign: "I just think people of the church, if they see something not going in the right direction, if it needs the police they should go to the police."

Later that year, the chief of the general staff of the Army sent an official apology to the McGreanery family and in 2013 an apology was also made by the armed forces minister, Andrew Robathan, in the House of Commons.

Following the Makin review this month, the archbishop said he had considered resigning over its findings and repeated his apology.

There has been no denial nor apology yet from Coote.