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 ...

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

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 ...

A survivor of 'sadistic' John Smyth has revealed how he was beaten with a cane and emotionally tortured by the Church of England's most prolific child abuser. Andrew Morse, 63, was horrifically ...

John Smyth was an evangelical Christian barrister who was subsequently claimed to be a serial abuser who targeted as many as 130 boys until his death in 2018. The scandal saw the Archbishop of Can ...

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 ...

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