The Titus Trust has denied ‘any cover-up on our part’ of the abuse carried out by serial abuser John Smyth at Iwerne Trust holiday camps in the 1970s and 1980s.
The denial came in a statement and timeline produced by the Titus Trust’s trustees – shortly before the publication of the controversial new book Bleeding for Jesus: John Smyth and the cult of the Iwerne Camps, by Andrew Graystone, which is reviewed by en here. He describes the former QC, who died in 2018, as ‘The Church of England’s Jimmy Savile’.
In its statement, the Titus Trust says it ‘failed to show our concern for the victims and survivors of John Smyth’s abuse. The welfare of every victim and survivor should always have been our main priority … We are profoundly sorry for the additional pain that we caused for a number of these men. … We have not always displayed all the Christian love and compassion that should be expected of an organisation committed to making the Christian gospel known’.
