Depraved church leader targteted jobless men in the soup kitchens

An elderly church leader who targeted and sexually abused jobless young men over a 36 year period may spend the rest of his life in jail. John Grant, 77, preacher at the London Baptist Association groomed ‘isolated and unemployed’ men at soup kitchens. Grant offered his victims free accommodation as well as religious guidance ‘before eroding their resistance’, said prosecutor David Dainty. Grant was a senior figure at the Muswell Hill Baptist Church and had links to Billingham Baptist Church…