John Smyth QC is believed to be the most prolific serial abuser to be associated with the Church of England A British barrister's "horrific" and violent abuse of more than 100 children and young ...

The Baptist church traces its origins to the sixteenth century when a Church of England minister, John Smyth, performed a radical and scandalous act of baptising himself and the congregation. It ...

In 1997, Smyth was arrested after the death of a 16-year-old boy at one camp. The case was dropped before trial and the ...

As a British lawyer, John Smyth was respected in Zimbabwe Smyth ... Church - I got hold of my pastor and we got hold of the Baptist Church, Methodist Church and two other churches in the city ...

John Smyth QC, described as the most prolific serial abuser to be associated with the Church of England, died aged 75, under police investigation after suffering a suspected cardiac arrest at his ...

A British barrister’s “abhorrent” abuse of more than 100 children and young men was covered up within the Church of England for years, a damning report has concluded. John Smyth QC is ...

Mark Stibbe, who was abused by John Smyth QC in the 1980s, told BBC Newsnight on Monday that Justin Welby’s position was “untenable” after an independent review published last week concluded ...

A panel has been appointed by Anglican Archbishop Thabo Makgoba to review the handling of abuse reports involving late former British lawyer, John Smyth. South African civil society leader ...

By Stephen Cherry The Church of England was cracked open by the publication in November of the Makin Report into the sadistic abuse of boys and young men by the conservative evangelical John Smyth.