SURVIVORS of alleged sexual abuse expressed “relief” yesterday after tainted Baroness Butler-Sloss resigned as chairwoman of the probe into claims of an Establishment paedophilia cover-up.

The former judge quit just six days after being appointed by Home Secretary Theresa May amid concerns about how she could impartially consider her brother Michael Havers’s alleged hushing-up of abuse claims.

Mr Havers is reported to have told fellow Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens not to carry out his threat to expose a senior diplomat as one of eight paedophiles in top public roles in the 1980s.