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John Smyth (barrister)
British barrister and child abuser (1941–2018)
John Smyth (barrister)
John Jackson Smyth QC (; 27 June 1941 – 11 August 2018) was a British barrister, judge (recorder), and serial child abuser who was involved in Christian ministry for children as chairman of the Iwerne Trust which raised funds for, and in practice ran, the influential conservative evangelical Iwerne camps. He was the lawyer for the Christian morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse. In 1982, the Iwerne Trust was informed that Smyth had performed sadistic beatings on schoolboys and young men associated with the Iwerne Camps and with a Christian group at Winchester 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 England bishop Andrew Watson disclosed that, as a young man, he was a victim. Smyth's son in an interview reported that Smyth sadistically caned him as a child. Smyth died of heart failure while under investigation and was never charged. An independent...
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