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John Smyth (barrister)

John Jackson SmythQC(/smaɪð/;27 June 1941 – 11 August 2018) was a Canadian-born Britishbarristerand serialchild abuserwho was actively involved in Christian ministry for children as chairman of theIwerne Trustwhich raised funds for, and in practice ran, the influentialconservative evangelicalIwerne camps.He acted as lawyer forMary Whitehouse,a Christian morality campaigner.

John Smyth
QC
An old man with thin white hair and a combover making a displeased facial expression.
Smyth in 2017
Born
John Jackson Smyth

(1941-06-27)27 June 1941
Calgary,Alberta, Canada
Died11 August 2018(2018-08-11)(aged 77)
Bergvliet,South Africa
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
EducationTrinity Hall, Cambridge(MA,LLB)
OccupationBarrister
Known forChild abuse
Spouse
Josephine Anne Leggott
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(m.1968)​
Children4

In 1982, the Iwerne Trust was informed that Smyth had performedsadistic beatingson schoolboys and young men associated with the Iwerne Camps and with a Christian group atWinchester College.Smyth moved to Zimbabwe in 1984, where he continued to run children's camps. The police were not informed of the 1982 report until 2013, and it became public in 2017.Church of EnglandBishopAndrew Watsondisclosed that, as a young man, he was a victim. Smyth died while under investigation and was not charged. Anindependent review published in 2024concluded that he subjected more than 100 boys and young men to "traumaticphysical,sexual,psychologicalandspiritualattacks "[1]: 1 over a period of four decades.

On 12 November 2024, the Archbishop of CanterburyJustin Welbyannounced he would resign due to the part he played in the church's failure to acknowledge Smyth's child abuse.[2]

Early life

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John Jackson Smyth was born inCalgary,Alberta, Canada, on 27 June 1941. He attendedStrathcona School.[1]: 25, 34 [3]

He and his family subsequently moved to theIsle of Wightin England, and he was educated atSt Lawrence Collegein Kent. In 1960, he went up toTrinity Hall, Cambridge,to study natural sciences, but switched to law in his second year. He received his BA (later MA) in 1963 and hisLLBin 1964.[1]: 25, 34 [3]

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Smyth wascalled to the BaratInner Templein 1965 andtook silkas aQueen's Counselin 1979. He was arecorder(with the powers of acircuit judgeable to sit in theCrown Court,theCounty Courtor theFamily Court) from 1978 to 1984. During the 1970s and early 1980s, he lived inWinchesterwhile practising law inLondon.[1]: 1, 25, 61–63, 118–120 

In July 1977, Smyth acted for Christian morality campaignerMary Whitehousein her successful private prosecution for blasphemy (Whitehouse v Lemon) at theOld Baileyagainst the newspaperGay Newsand its editor, Denis Lemon, over the publication ofJames Kirkup's poemThe Love that Dares to Speak its Name.[4]He also initially acted for Whitehouse in her failedprivate prosecutionof theNational Theatreproduction ofHoward Brenton's playThe Romans in Britainin 1980, but withdrew from the case in 1982, which was stated at the time to be due to illness, but was later documented in theMakin Reviewto have been part of his agreement with the Iwerne Trust after they became aware of his abuse.[5][1]: 1, 25, 61–63, 118–120 

Smyth moved to Zimbabwe in 1984 and to South Africa in 2001.[1]: 1, 25, 61–63, 118–120 While living inCape Town,South Africa, he ran the Justice Alliance of South Africa (JASA) for some years. JASA describes itself as "a coalition of corporations‚ individuals and churches committed to upholding and fighting for justice and the highest moral standards in South African society".[6]

Smyth represented South Africa's Doctors for Life,[7]and, as anamicus curiaeof the Constitutional Court in May 2005, unsuccessfully opposed the legalisation ofsame-sex marriage in South AfricainMinister of Home Affairs v Fourie.[8]Smyth claimed that to introduce same-sex marriage would result in "violence to the mind and spirit" of the religiously devout and would discriminate against them.[9]

It emerged on 3 February 2017 that the board of the Justice Alliance of South Africa had asked Smyth to immediately stand down as the head of the organisation. His standing down was described as temporary, but his return was not thought likely.[10]

Christian ministry, children's work and abuse

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TheIwerne campstook place at theClayesmore Schoolfrom the 1940s until the early 2000s.

Having moved his family to live in Winchester, they attendedChrist Church, Winchester,an evangelical Church of England church. From November 1973 to May 1974, he trained as alay readerand, having completed his training, served at Christ Church. This made him an "office holder" in the Church of England, although readers are not ordained and remain part of thelaity.[1]He had attempted to be ordained in theDiocese of Yorkin 1980 and in theDiocese of Winchesterin 1981, and perhaps also theDiocese of Oxford,but was rejected at each attempt:[1]: 40 the Makin Review concluded that "it is reasonable to assume that either something was known of John Smyth's abuse or he was considered to be unsuitable on account of something else".[1]: 227 By October 1982, he was no longer listed as a lay reader in theDiocese of Winchester.[1]

Smyth was chairman of theIwerne Trustbetween 1974 and 1981. This organisation raised funds for (and in practice ran) theIwerne camps;these were Christian holiday camps that had been founded byEric "Bash" Nashto instruct boys frompublic schools(i.e. top independent schools) inmuscular Christianityand with aconservative evangelicaltheology, to become future Christian leaders, especially within the Church of England.[11][1]Smyth first attended the camp as a university student in 1964 and acted as a leader, dormitory supervisor and lecturer.[12][13][1]His lectures, to boys as young as 13, frequently concerned masturbation and sex.[1]

Smyth gained access toWinchester College,then an all-boys boarding school near his home, through the Christian Forum (i.e. the school'sChristian Union) from September 1973.[1]: 35 The Makin Review identified 16 pupils who were abused and an additional six to eight who weregroomed;it qualified this number with "we strongly suspect that the true figure is probably greater".[1]: 20 

Smyth moved to Zimbabwe in 1984, where in 1986, he set up Zambesi Ministries, which held summer camps for boys from the country's leading schools. In December 1992 a 16-year-old boy, Guide Nyachuru, drowned at theMaronderacamp. Nyachuru's unclothed body was found in theRuzawi Schoolswimming pool. Smyth officiated at Nyachuru's funeral.[1]: 130 A 21-page report by lawyerDavid Coltartwas published in October 1993 and circulated to head teachers and church leaders in Zimbabwe.[14]Smyth was arrested in 1997 during the investigation into the drowning of Nyachuru. Smyth always said that his death was an accident.[8]The possibility ofculpable homicidewas, after a long investigation, ruled as unlikely, but the incident raised concerns about Smyth's behaviour towards boys in his care.[8][15]The Makin Review revealed that he had continued his abuse of boys, including "beating with table tennis bat, enforced nudity, naked swimming, and showering" and that he had given "regular lectures about masturbation".[1]: 129 

In 2001, the Smyth family moved to South Africa.[1]: 169 The Makin Review suggested that there "is some evidence of John Smyth continuing to groom and potentially abusing young men in South Africa".[1]: 172 

First reports

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An internal report from theIwerne Trustin 1982, compiled by Mark Ruston of theRound Church Cambridgeand Iwerne camp leader David Fletcher (employed byScripture Union), referred to "horrific" beatings of "young men"[16][17]According to Ruston:

The scale and severity of the practice was horrific. Five of the 13 I have seen were in it only for a short time. Between them they had 12 beatings and about 650 strokes. The other 8 received about 14,000 strokes: 2 of them having some 8,000 strokes over the three years. The others were involved for one year or 18 months. 8 spoke of bleeding on most occasions ( "I could feel the blood splattering on my legs" – "I was bleeding for 3 1/2 weeks" "I fainted sometime after a severe beating" ). I have seen bruised and scored buttocks, some two-and-a-half months after the beating. Beatings of 100 strokes for masturbation, 400 for pride, and one of 800 strokes for some undisclosed "fall" are recorded.[16]

Winchester College, with its pupils among the alleged victims, was informed about the alleged beatings but both the college and the trust failed to inform the police about Smyth. The headmaster asked Smyth to keep away from the college and not to contact its pupils.[18]

In February 1989,John Thorn,the headmaster of Winchester College during the years that Smyth was active, released his autobiography, which included the following:[19]

I was told the extraordinary news that the neighbouring barrister had gained such personal control over a few of the senior boys in the group, and had kept it after they left the school, that he was claiming to direct their burgeoning relationships with girls, and was, with their consent, punishing them physically when they confessed to him they had sinned.

— John Thorn,The Road to Winchester

Further investigations

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On 3 February 2017, two days after Smyth was publicly named as an abuser,Anne Atkins,an evangelical Christian, revealed via an article inThe Daily Telegraphthat she had referred to him in her 2012 article.[20]The independent review commissioned by Winchester College and published in January 2022 included the above passage from Thorn's autobiography and indicated that it was a reference to Smyth.[21]

Smyth was first publicly named as an abuser by an article inThe Daily Telegraphpublished on 1 February 2017.[22]The article indicated thatChannel 4 Newswould be broadcasting a report on Smyth's violent physical abuse of young men. The report aired the next day and showed Smyth beingdoorsteppedby reporterCathy Newman,while on a Christmas and New Year visit to friends in Bristol, England.[23]Smyth commented that he was "not talking about what we did at all" and said some of the claims were "nonsense".[24]

Shortly after the report theBishop of Guildford,Andrew Watson,disclosed that he was one of Smyth's victims.[25][26]

I am one of the survivors of John Smyth's appalling activities... the beating I endured in the infamous garden shed was violent, excruciating and shocking.

— Andrew Watson, Bishop of Guildford

After the abuse became public,Graham Tilby,national safeguarding adviser for theChurch of England,said: "Clearly, more could have been done at the time to look further into the case."[18]Smyth was excommunicated from the Church-on-Main in Cape Town after church leaders said he refused to return to the UK and engage with police.[27]

On 10 April 2017, BBC News at Ten reported that the Englishfirst-class cricketerandCaldicott SchoolheadmasterSimon Doggarthad been abused by Smyth, but he also had administered beatings alongside Smyth to other victims.[28][29][30]

Personal life and death

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In January 1966, Smyth met Josephine Anne Leggott. They married on 1 June 1968, and had one son and three daughters.[1]: 34 [3]

Smyth died from heart failure, aged 77, on 11 August 2018, at his home inBergvliet,South Africa, near Cape Town.[31]

Subsequent developments

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In June 2020, the Church of England removed final diocesanpermission to officiatefromGeorge Carey,a formerArchbishop of Canterbury,having identified procedural failings either in his review of, or his failure to have other bodies review, allegations against Smyth.[32]Permission was restored to Carey by theBishop of Oxfordseven months later.[33]

Bleeding for Jesus

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A book documenting Smyth's abuse was published in September 2021.Bleeding for Jesus: John Smyth and the Cult of the Iwerne Campswas written by Andrew Graystone, a journalist and theologian who had been involved in the exposure of Smyth.[34]Graystone described how from 1976 onwards, Smyth developed an interest in boys at Winchester College's Christian Forum, a body that grew substantially in size during the so-called "evangelical revival" at the school in the mid-1970s, with 35 out of 50 boys at one boarding house – Kingsgate House (or "Beloes" ), from which Smyth selected the majority of his victims – at one time attending Bible studies.[35]Smyth attended the Christian Forum nearly every week, giving a talk each term, and he would regularly drive two or three boys from this group to his home, Orchard House inMoresteadjust outside Winchester, for Sunday lunch with his family and in summer to swim in the pool.[36]Not all boys who attended these Sunday lunches were beaten by Smyth;[21]those who were beaten were individually taken to a shed in his garden, where both Smyth and the boy would remove some or all of their clothes. Smyth would then beat the boy, a gym shoe being used at first, then a garden cane, with the number of strokes, as detailed in the Ruston report, initially equating to the severity of their supposed spiritual infringement, or, in Graystone's words, "related to 'specific' sins".[37]

Over time the number of strokes increased, and the caning would be undertaken not as punishment for any particular "sinful" deed or thought but as "prophylaxis; a spiritual discipline to keep the soul in order".[37]Adult nappies and lotion were given to boys after the beating to prevent them from bleeding on the Smyth family furniture when they returned across the garden lawn to the house.[37]Smyth later had a special garden shed designed, soundproofed and equipped with a variety of canes.[37]When he was carrying out a beating a whiteyachting pennonwould be planted on the lawn so that his wife Anne and members of his family knew that he should not be disturbed.[38]Upon returning to school, some boys refused to use the communal showers as their wounds were so extensive, and one boy, Simon Doggart, had to play an important game ofWinchester College footballin February 1978 with bandages under his kit to hide the severe lacerations he had received from a beating that Smyth had given him for the "sin of pride".[38]

Many of the boys whom Smyth had beaten while at Winchester College attended the Iwerne summer camps atClayesmore School,along with boys who went to other public schools such asEton College,Harrow Schooland two dozen or so other elite establishments. According to Graystone, attendance at Iwerne was "strictly regulated" on the basis of schooling, with boys who had gone to camp subsequently being "placed" as teachers in the same schools to ensure a steady flow of recruits, while at the same time maintaining the camp's credibility with parents.[39]In 1964, Smyth was invited to be an officer at Iwerne by its founder Eric Nash, despite the fact that Smyth's school,St Lawrence College,was not among those from which boys were selected, his charisma proving sufficiently attractive.[40]In 1975, Nash elevated Smyth to the position of Chair of the Iwerne Trust.[40]

Graystone states that the evening Bible talks at Iwerne, in which the organisation's brand ofmuscular Christianitywas promulgated, were the "whole point of the exercise";[41]Smyth gave many of these, and a youngJustin Welbyalso gave talks, with his text being thoroughly scrutinised by Smyth and others before delivery. According to Welby, Smyth was "charming, delightful, very clever, a brilliant speaker".[41]

After many of the boys from Winchester College whom Smyth had beaten left the school in 1979, Smyth, through his role at Iwerne, carried on inviting them to Orchard House in Morestead, where the beatings continued, and he took a group of them on holiday toSt JustinCornwall,where they rented a cottage called Bosloe: this group named themselves the "Bosloe Boys".[42]He also visited Iwerne attendees at universities around England and now took the opportunity to meet other young men at university inBristol,CambridgeandDurham.Smyth's relation with Simon Doggart developed at Cambridge, where a group of Iwerne men atMagdalene Collegemet regularly at theRound Churchin the city; Mark Ruston was preacher at the church and Justin Welby a regular attendee, with Welby soon starting to attend camps at Iwerne.[43]

It was at the Iwerne camp at Clayesmore that one ex-Winchester boy, named only "Tony" by Graystone, was beaten by Smyth for a session that lasted 12 hours, to "crush his spirit"; the duration of these beatings was so exhausting for Smyth that he auditioned others to help him, settling on Simon Doggart. Doggart would be beaten by Smyth every two weeks, and at other times Doggart would beat the young men himself. Doggart was a left-handed batsman and he and Smyth occasionally conducted the beatings at the same time, delivering the strokes one after the other.[44]In 1981, Smyth had a roster of 26 men whom, along with Doggart, he would beat, and sessions would extend up to 800 strokes at a time.[45]Andrew Morse, son of SirJeremy Morseand one of the ex-Winchester "Bosloe Boys" who was beaten in Morestead every three weeks, was scheduled to have a special "double birthday beating" along with Doggart in January 1982 (they were both turning 21), but after five years of beating it was too much for Morse, so after writing and posting a letter to Smyth in which he said he would expose him to the press, on 4 February he attempted to take his own life at theUniversity of East Anglia.[44]

Pickles Review

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In January 2022,Winchester Collegeapologised for abuse perpetrated by Smyth, following the release of an independent review – the Pickles Review – that the College had commissioned.[21][46]

The reviewers have not encountered any evidence, whether oral or documentary, which suggests that John Smyth did not commit the acts described within this report.[...] In total, the reviewers are aware of 13 former pupils of Winchester College who were abused by Smyth. Not all of the abuse involved assault or physical beatings. Some of the victims were subjected to severe emotional and spiritual abuse and inappropriate sexualised behaviour.[...] The reviewers have concluded that if Smyth had been prosecuted for the offence of assault or assault occasioning actual bodily harm in the 1980s or later on the basis of the evidence shared with the reviewers, there would have been a reasonable prospect of conviction.

— Review into the abuse by John Smyth of pupils and former pupils of Winchester College

The review also concluded that Smyth had abused boys sexually as well as physically and emotionally, citing reports of Smyth forcing victims to strip naked, striking them on the buttocks and kissing their necks, as well as stripping naked in front of them and on one occasion grabbing a teenage boy's genitals.[21]

Makin Review

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In 2024, an independent review commissioned by the Church of England concluded that Smyth had abused between 115 and 130 boys and young men.[1]: 1 

John Smyth was an appalling abuser of children and young men. His abuse was prolific, brutal and horrific. His victims were subjected to traumatic physical, sexual, psychological and spiritual attacks. The impact of that abuse is impossible to overstate and has permanently marked the lives of his victims. John Smyth's own family are victims of his abuse.

— Keith Makin,Independent Learning Lessons Review: John Smyth QC,page 1, paragraph 1.3

Furthermore, the review found that the church had covered up the abuses of Smyth and he had been allowed to take positions abroad by church officials who knew in a general sense of the abuses.[47][1]: 1, 25, 61–63, 118–120 Archbishop of CanterburyJustin Welby,who had been informed of Smyth's abuse in 2013 but took no action against him, resigned over the scandal on 12 November 2024, after some members of the General Synod had started a petition calling on him to step down.[48][49]

PJ Smyth interview

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On 18 November 2024, Channel 4 News broadcast an interview between Cathy Newman and Smyth's son, Peter John "PJ" Smyth, who is currently a church leader in the United States. PJ described his experiences of growing up and being abused by his father, including severe beatings in the garden shed at Orchard House, Morestead, over a period of four years, starting when PJ was seven years old.[50]John Smyth would consult a black book that was kept in the family kitchen, listing PJ's "wrongdoings", and then say, "Peter John, it's time to go to the shed."[50]On one occasion PJ received 36 strokes, six strokes each for six "bad reports" at school.[50]After the beatings, PJ's mother, Anne Smyth – whom PJ called "the closest victim to him for all her adult life" – would dress his wounds with cream and adult nappies. The beatings came to a stop in 1982 when PJ was eleven, following the circulation of the secret Ruston Report.[50]After the family moved to Zimbabwe, PJ was Guide Nyachuru's dormitory leader at Ruzawi School. He recalls skinny dipping one night with the boys in the swimming pool, and then Guide not being present in the dormitory the following morning.[50]

After Cathy Newman's Channel 4 reports were broadcast in 2017, PJ confronted his father and said that he was willing to go on a global tour with him so that John Smyth could do the right thing and apologise to his victims. John Smyth refused and told PJ, "Stop being disloyal, it's lies and exaggeration."[50]PJ said that the Makin Review "cemented my father as the most prolific abuser connected to the Church of England and it cemented the Church of England as needing rapid and radical changes in terms of their response to abuse".[50]

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Works cited

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  • Graystone, Andrew (2021).Bleeding for Jesus: John Smyth and the Cult of the Iwerne Camps.Darton, Longman, and Todd.ISBN978-1913657123.

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