ONE of shamed cardinal Keith O’Brien’s sex attack victims has slated the Catholic Church for
delaying a probe on him.

It took more than a year for an investigation into O’Brien to begin and, a year on, a report into him has still to be published.

O’Brien was forced to retire in February 2013 after five priests made a series of allegations of sexual misconduct.

Last April, the Vatican got Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta to probe the allegations.

He conducted interviews in Edinburgh but despite the Church being presented with a report,
his findings have yet to be published.

O’Brien’s victim said: “The Church has been asked the world over to act on this.

“Scicluna’s report must have burnt the varnish off the desk, but the Vatican can move at a glacial speed when it wants.”

O’Brien’s victim also said he’s disgusted the archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh gave O’Brien a £200,000 house for his retirement, while a church in one of city’s poorest parishes closed in the wake of the scandal.

The archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh said: “Pope Francis is considering the findings of Bishop Scicluna and we hope and trust he will reach a decision that is fair and just.”