UNITED STATES
The Sun
BY ELLIE FLYNN 2nd February 2017
EXPLOSIVE details have emerged about alleged sexual abuse at a Christian charity that ran summer camps in the 70s.
A Channel 4 News investigation, reported in the Daily Telegraph, is expected to reveal charity head John Smyth QC “forced public schoolboys to strip naked before subjecting them to savage beatings”.
But who is John Smyth and is he facing charges for the alleged abuse?
Who is John Smyth QC?
John Smyth QC was head of the Irwine Trust, a Christian charity closely linked to a church that ran summer camps in the late seventies.
He is accused of recruiting 22 young men into a cult in which they agreed to let him administer tens of thousands of lashes with a garden cane, supposedly to purge them of minor sins such as masturbation and pride.
The beatings, which took place in a shed in the garden of Mr Smyth’s Winchester home, were so intense that the victims were left with lasting scars.
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