behind the abuse, this man, john smyth, who beat young men until they bled.ed out. despite promises from those at the top... their interests have to come first, those are the people we care about most. months on, still silence from the church. john smyth was chairman of the iwerne trust, a charity which ran holiday camps with close ties to the church of england. over a four—year period, smyth recruited and beat young men from these camps and from winchester college in his garden shed. in 1982 the trust commissioned a report cataloguing the criminal nature of the beatings but they failed to pass this on to police. three decades later, in 2013, one of the victims came forward. in 2014 the trust was informed and this time finally contacted the police. but now we've learned that, once again, the full report was withheld, although the trust insists that they did share all the relevant information. however, in 2014, the police investigation came to a halt. andy morse was unaware an investigation had even been opened. he feared his story would never be heard. three