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The council said a formal "recovery plan" was to be implemented, saying it had "proactive steps in place" to review internal processes, including a barrister investigating events in 2019 referenced in the trial.

The British barrister had moved to Zimbabwe with his wife and four children from Winchester in England in 1984 to work with an evangelistic organisation.

The barrister and senior member of a Christian charity then moved to Zimbabwe and later South Africa, where he abused up to 100 boys aged 13 to 17, the Makin review added.

Smyth was a prominent barrister as well as a lay preacher - a member of the congregation who delivers sermons but is not ordained - who ran summer camps for young Christians.

Mr Sharif told Ms Batool's barrister, Caroline Carberry KC, that the social worker's notes were not true.