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 ...

Richard Gittins told Sky News that bishops ‘who kept the stories to themselves’ should now be held accountable.

John Smyth was never brought to justice for the abuse because he died aged 75 before he was investigated The Archbishop of Canterbury’s failure to act meant that the Church of England’s most ...