UNITED KINGDOM
The Sun
BY TOM TOWERS AND CARRI-ANN TAYLOR 2nd February 2017
POLICE probing physical abuse allegations against a former colleague of the Archbishop of Canterbury have appealed for possible victims to call them.
John Smyth QC, 75, of Winchester, Hants, is said to have beaten teenage boys at a Christian camp in the 1970s.
He has refused to discuss it.
The Archbishop of Canterbury issued an “unresereved and unequivocal apology” after it emerged he worked at holiday camps where teenage boys had been abused.
The Most Rev Justin Welby said the Church had “failed terribly” by not reporting Smyth, the head of the Christian charity that ran the summer camps, to police after he was accused of abusing boys in the 1970s.
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