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The Guardian - UK
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Rachel Savage and Farai Shawn Matiashe

Church of England ‘directly responsible’ for John Smyth abuse in Zimbabwe, victim says

John Smyth.
John Smyth died in Cape Town in 2018 with a UK police investigation against him still ongoing. Photograph: Channel 4 News

When John Smyth gave a presentation at their school about his Christian holiday camps in 1993, Rocky Leanders and his school friends were “blown away”.

“This is Zimbabwe in the early 90s; the technology wasn’t great. These guys set up a projector with colour videos of speed boats … abseiling, golf, tennis, paddle boarding, swimming pools, diving boards,” recalled Leanders, who was 15 at the time. “We insisted we needed to go.”

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