Father Dimitry himself never satisfactorily explained his recantation, though it ended his mission as a dissident priest.

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But it also tried hard to discredit Mr Mehlis, most dramatically by televising a key witness's supposed recantation.

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Mr Cameron said the recent review of the system by its original architect, Baroness Warnock, was "a stunning recantation".

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Three weeks ago Mr Abdi made a curious recantation, presumably under extreme pressure.

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Hersh had the recantation in her possession, the Daily News reported, but she failed to share it with the grand jury or defense lawyers.

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Even the al-Shareef recantation, like those of the Jamaa Islamiya, seems to accept the legitimacy in principle of violent jihad in defence of the faith.

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In one celebrated recantation, an austere American, B.

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It was the recantation of an agenda.

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Since it took until 1992 for the Vatican to admit it was wrong to condemn Galileo, Mr Stourton is not sanguine about early recantation on the ban on artificial contraception, which has lost the church millions of adherents and left millions more forced to make agonising choices between misery and sin.

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