Holocaust row bishop heading for the UK

The British bishop at the centre of the Catholic church Holocaust row fled Argentina today.

Richard Williamson, who is on record denying that six million Jews died in Nazi camps, left the country just days after the Argentinian government threatened to expel him.

He is believed to be heading for London.

A Buenos Aires TV station showed the bishop, whose statements embarrassed the Vatican, raising his fist to a reporter as he prepared to board an international flight.

Bishop Williamson, wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses, hurried through the city’s international airport to catch his plane.

His South American superior Christian Bouchacourt declined to give details about his departure plans or destination, but the reporter said he was boarding a flight to London.

The bishop had been resident in Argentina, which has a large Jewish community, but last week the government gave him 10 days to leave condemning his Holocaust remarks as “deeply offensive”.