The Titus Trust, the body that replaced the Iwerne Trust which ran the Christian camps where John Smyth met his abuse victims in the ’70s and ’80s, could be sued by some of Smyth’s victims, it was reported in August.
Smyth QC, himself a sufferer of abuse at the hand of his own father and at his prep school, took boys from prestigious schools into a garden shed built specifically for the purpose of administering beatings. Victims said they were hit with a cane for up to two hours.
Police wanting interview
Smyth died the week after he heard that Hampshire Police wished to interview him about the beatings of public schoolboys at his home. Smyth had been allowed to leave the country when the offences came to light as far back as 1982. He committed similar offences in Zimbabwe and then escaped to South Africa.
