Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell has said he is sorry he was not able to act sooner in the case of sex abuse by a priest in the Church of England but insisted it was not the case of an abuser being protected.
Mr Cottrell, the Church of England’s second-most senior bishop, has faced calls to resign over his handling of the case of David Tudor, who was banned from ministry for life this year after admitting what the Church described as serious sexual abuse involving two girls aged 15 and 16.
