The woman, who has only been identified as ‘HG’, criticises Islanders who have publicly defended the Dean, the Very Rev Bob Key, after he had his licence to preach withdrawn by the Bishop of Winchester in March after the publication of a report calling into question the Dean’s handling HG’s complaint, which was made in 2008.

HG’s letter, which was published on former St Martin Deputy Bob Hill’s blog, is addressed to ‘Bruce Willing, Philip Bailhache, Gavin Ashenden and others’.