Christian Society At Winchester College Was Like A Cult, Says Report Into Abuse
The Guardian|January 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.
Harriet Sherwood
Christian Society At Winchester College Was Like A Cult, Says Report Into Abuse

Members of the Christian Forum at Winchester college “showed signs of what would today be described as radicalisation”, said a 197-page review commissioned by the school into abuse by John Smyth QC.

The school’s headmaster at the time, John Thorn, now in his 90s, was informed of the abuse in 1982 but did not report it to police. Smyth moved to Zimbabwe where he abused “as many as 90 boys, possibly resulting in the death of one”, the report said.

Winchester college apologised for its part in the “terrible experiences” of Smyth’s victims, saying: “The review … demonstrates that Smyth was able to infiltrate the college’s Christian community and gain access to the college pupils, providing him with the opportunity to groom and then abuse them.”

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