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London Free Press

By Jane Sims, The London Free Press

Last Updated: March 9, 2012

Disgraced pastor Royden Wood stood up Friday in the courtroom to speak and the women who were once part of his cult-like flock watched him warily.

“I’ve spent my life trying to be a help to those around me,” he said to Superior Court Justice Dougald McDermid, especially “the disadvantaged.

“I’ve been greatly grieved by those who have been injured by these proceedings.”

It wasn’t clear to whom he was referring. His wife and son sat in the front row behind the prisoner’s box at the sentencing hearing for the former Ambassador church pastor.