Scientist reverses himself: Shroud of Turin could be 2,000 years old

In a video filmed shortly before his death Mr Rogers says: ‘I don’t believe in miracles that defy the laws of nature. After the 1988 investigation I’d given up on the shroud.

‘But now I am coming to the conclusion that it has a very good chance of being the piece of cloth that was used to bury the historic Jesus.’