Victim was told to cause himself pain to get rid of homosexual feelings by John Smyth, QC at centre of claims of abuse in 1970s John Smyth, the former QC at the centre of claims about the sadistic abuse of Christian youth in the 1970s, allegedly ordered a teenage boy to self-harm as a way of ridding himself of "sinful" homosexual yearnings. The survivor, then a schoolboy, said he was instructed to "do anything to give myself pain" amid "frightening and blunt" warnings about homosexuality, drivin...
Victim was told to cause himself pain to get rid of homosexual feelings by John Smyth, QC at centre of claims of abuse in 1970s John Smyth, the former QC at the centre of claims about the sadistic abuse of Christian youth in the 1970s, allegedly ordered a teenage boy to self-harm as a way of ridding himself of "sinful" homosexual yearnings. The survivor, then a schoolboy, said he was instructed to "do anything to give myself pain" amid "frightening and blunt" warnings about homosexuality, drivin...
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