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Up to 100 pupils attended the college’s weekly Christian Forum, which was dominated by Smyth. “The inner circle of the Christian Forum which formed around Smyth in the 1970s and early 1980s shares many features of a cult. Its members showed signs of what would today be described as radicalisation,” the review concluded.
Jan 20, 2022 · Led by two independent experts, Jan Pickles OBE and Genevieve Woods, Winchester college’s review has concluded Smyth’s way into the school was through the Christian Forum, an evangelical group that met on Sundays.
Jan 18, 2022 · A cult-like evangelical Christian society at Winchester College allowed a barrister “unfettered access” to the school where he groomed boys, an investigation has found.
A powerful evangelical Christian barrister at the heart of a cult-like society at a leading public school had “unfettered access” to groom and sadistically abuse boys with impunity, an investigation has found.
In the 1970s and 80s, the college allowed a Christian Forum to operate on college grounds which was later described as "cult-like", and which gave access to pupils to a man who reportedly carried out sadomasochistic abuse on several of them.
Jan 19, 2022 · A cult-like evangelical Christian society at a leading private school allowed a powerful and charismatic barrister to groom and sadistically abuse boys with impunity, an investigation has found. Read this exciting story from The Guardian January 19, 2022.
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Jan 19, 2022 · Inquiry into abuse reveals that the school’s Christian Forum cohort was taken in by ‘charismatic’ John Smyth QC, who carried out attacks. Camilla Turner 18 January 2022
