Smyth County Public Schools contains null schools. The district’s minority enrollment is 10%. 100% of the student body served by Smyth County Public Schools has not specified their race or ...

Victims of John Smyth’s brutal physical and sexual abuse have welcomed a letter from the Church of England’s safeguarding team in which the institution “accepts the harm caused” and offers ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby resigned today after an independent review concluded John Smyth QC might have been brought to justice had the archbishop formally alerted authorities in 2013.

More than 100 boys and young men were abused by late barrister Smyth over five decades. One of his victims, Richard Gittins, said bishops "who kept the stories to themselves" should now be the focus ...

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 ...

The Makin Review named Sir Jamie and the Rev Sue Colman as likely to have had significant knowledge of John Smyth’s abuses in the UK and Africa. A Church of England minister and her Colman’s ...

AMONG the Makin review’s conclusions is that John Smyth, who continued to beat and abuse boys after moving to Zimbabwe in 1984, was “a problem solved and exported to Africa”. It recommends the ...

The journalist who first broke the story of the abuse perpetrated by John Smyth back in 2017 has defended the Archbishop of Canterbury following his resignation. Justin Welby resigned earlier today ...

It comes after an independent report released last week concluded that the Archbishop’s failure to act on concerns about the abuser John Smyth meant he was never brought to justice. Smyth ...

Reverend Sue Colman, associate minister at St Leonard's Church in Oakley, near Basingstoke in Hampshire, was aware of John Smyth's abuse before being ordained, the independent Makin Review found.

He had been facing growing pressure to stand down over his “failures” to alert authorities about John Smyth QC’s “abhorrent” abuse of children and young men. The Archbishop currently ...

Smyth studied law at Trinity Hall College, Cambridge and was called to the bar in 1965. In 1979, he went on to be the youngest Queens Counsel at the time. Reports in the County Press at the time said ...