A report into the safeguarding culture and policies at a church has been commissioned after accusations of sexual abuse ...

When it all fell apart, and John Smyth was finally unmasked in a television documentary as one of the Church of England's most prolific child abusers, his faithful wife, Anne, had a ring-side seat ...

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 ...

Justin Welby has told the BBC he forgives a serial abuser at the heart of a scandal that led to his resignation as Archbishop of Canterbury. In his first interview since quitting in November last ...

“This is all the more surprising, given that Lambeth Palace had been told of, and had acknowledged, that Justin Welby may have a connection with John Smyth.” In a statement following the ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury has been accused of lying after he claimed to be unaware of the severity of child abuse by evangelical Christian John Smyth. Smyth, a barrister who ran Christian youth ...

But the words instead apply to John Smyth, the man described in an official investigation last year as “the most prolific ...

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, had committed acts of unimaginable brutality against ...

Justin Welby quit as the head of the Anglican church today, admitting 'shame' over his failure to act to stop the sickening excesses of John Smyth. Smyth, a top barrister and lay church reader ...

Justin Welby has he admitted he 'got it wrong' when handling child sex abuse allegations against John Smyth. But the former Archbishop of Canterbury has defended his record after a report revealed ...

A friend of murdered John Smyth has today told of his devastation at the way he died. And Gordon Lapsley said he was ...