The independent Makin Review concluded that barrister John Smyth might have been brought to justice had the archbishop ...
Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Years earlier, I had been told that John Smyth, the glamorous, upright Christian barrister I’d known from a distance since I was a child ...
Their anger is palpable. Publication of the Makin Report, a 251 page devastating indictment of how abuser John Smyth was able to savagely attack hundreds of boys over the course of 40 years ...
Archbishop Justin Welby resigns after abuse report exposes cover-up dating back to 1982. The British evangelical lay leader John Smyth beat boys at a Christian camp and a boarding school in the ...
The crisis engulfing Justin Welby over his links to child sex abuser John Smyth has its roots in years of reporting by The Telegraph.
John Smyth was a barrister and an evangelical Christian, who held several leadership roles in the Iwerne Trust in the 1970s and 1980s. The Trust was a charity that organised summer camps for young ...
A victim of serial abuser John Smyth has said the Archbishop of Canterbury’s resignation paves the way for others to be held accountable. Justin Welby said he would be stepping down less than a ...
He leaves behind a wounded and shrinking Church of England. By Madeleine Davies As the months turned into years there were suspicions that the long-awaited report on John Smyth, thought to be the ...