On 23 October 2015 you ignored the presumption of innocence essential to proper justice and reported an allegation of child sex abuse against the late Bishop George Bell as if his guilt were a proven fact. You resisted attempts to correct this. Now, two independent inquiries have shredded these claims and Bishop Bell’s vindication and rehabilitation are so total that a statue of him is soon to be placed on the west front of Canterbury Cathedral. Has the time not come to recognise this vindication?
Peter Hitchens
London
