Gordon Lapsley has told of his heartache at hearing how his Royal Navy comrade was battered to death by George Ness in ...

George Ness repeatedly battered John Smyth, 63, with a wooden plank in a backyard in Wallsend, then searched his dying victim's pockets to steal his phone, Newcastle Crown Court heard. The 41-year ...

A former friend of a drug addict who brutally killed a Royal Navy veteran has said the murderer had changed in the years ...

A former friend of the 41-year-old has told how his ex-pal changed in the years before he killed Royal Navy veteran John ...

John Smyth, 63, was battered to death in a backyard in Wallsend as he tried to stop George Ness from smashing his way into a woman's flat. Ness, 41, from North Shields, had claimed self-defence ...

Mr Carey, archbishop from 1991 to 2002, is one of ten priests and ex-bishops facing possible Church of England proceedings over alleged safeguarding failures in the case of John Smyth. The Church ...

Twenty two young men groomed and ritually beaten over many years, supposedly to purge them of their sins: one even attempted suicide. The alleged perpetrator – eminent QC John Smyth – ran a ...

He hurt us. … Guide was an only boy in a family of seven girls. What he (the abuser) did was grossly unfair. May his spirit burn in hell!” These are sentiments… Continue Reading → ...

M ore than 100 children and young men were subjected to horrific abuse by barrister John Smyth QC, a former figure in the ...

The long-awaited report was released in November and detailed "the prolific, brutal and horrific" abuse perpetrated against more than 120 boys and young men by Smyth at Christian camps from the ...