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 ...

Victims recount horrifying abuse at the hands of barrister John Smyth. Mark Stibbe, Andy Morse and Richard Gittens ...

Archbishop Justin Welby resigned under pressure over allegations that he had failed to act against a serial child abuser.

Cathy Newman: Justin Welby said in his statement he wanted to meet the victims. I know that is something that many victims ...

Victims of John Smyth, a barrister who led Christian summer camps and is thought to be the most prolific abuser associated with the Church, have called for further resignations from senior clergy ...

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 ...

Senior Church leaders, who are still in post, are accused in Makin review of being aware of allegations against John Smyth before 2017 The Archbishop of Canterbury’s resignation has intensified ...

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 ...

Welby learned in 2013, shortly after he took the reins of the global Anglican church, that John Smyth had victimized about 30 boys and young men in the United Kingdom and 85 more in Africa over ...

An independent review has found the Church of England covered up "horrific' abuse by a lawyer who volunteered at Christian summer camps in the 1970s and 1980s.