UNITED KINGDOM
Christian Today
Ruth Gledhill EDITOR
04 February 2017
A senior Church of England bishop has stated that people who attended John Smyth’s summer camps at the centre of allegations of brutal assault would have known each other and talked about it.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, a dormitory officer at the camps in the late 1970s, has insisted he was not part of the inner circle of friends and no-one discussed the allegations of abuse with him.
Bishop of Buckingham Alan Wilson was speaking out after police launched an investigation into claims that teenage boys from Britain’s leading public schools were violently beaten, in what’s been described as a “sadomasochistic cult” run by a lawyer with links to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The allegations of what went on at the Iwerne or “Bash” Christian summer camps run by John Smyth QC, now a morality campaigner in South Africa, have been subject of a series of investigative reports by Channel 4 News this week.
Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.