The independent Makin Review concluded that barrister John Smyth might have been brought to justice had the archbishop ...

Smyth County Public Schools Division Superintendent Dennis Carter told News Channel 11 on Friday that he first heard of the charges against Williams through the media. On Monday, the school board ...

The crisis engulfing Justin Welby over his links to child sex abuser John Smyth has its roots in years of reporting by The Telegraph.

Carter told the school board that Smyth County has asked for a waiver of those days. However, he recommended that the board only approve waving five days now and consider the other two days after ...

It found Smyth identified pupils from leading public schools including Winchester College and took them to his home near Winchester in Hampshire, where he carried out lashings with a garden cane ...

Makin review says that over a forty year period John Smyth became “arguably, the most prolific serial abuser to be associated with the Church of England.” John Smyth, a distinguished barrister ...

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 ...

The report admits that John Smyth’s activities, which included vicious and repeated canings in his garden shed of boys and young men recruited at schools including Winchester College and elite ...

A scathing review has been published into the Church of England’s handling of abuse by the late John Smyth QC (Alamy/PA) A British barrister’s “abhorrent” abuse of more than 100 children ...

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 ...

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 ...

John Smyth’s “abhorrent abuse” of more than 100 children and young men could have been exposed in 2013 – three years before it was made public – if the Most Rev Justin Welby followed up ...