to Smyth. Public exposure Smyth was first publicly named as an abuser by an article in The Daily Telegraph published on 1 February 2017. The article indicated that Channel 4 News would be broadcasting a report on Smyth's violent physical abuse of young men. The report aired the next day and showed Smyth being doorstepped by reporter Cathy Newman, while on a Christmas and New Year visit to friends in Bristol, England. Smyth commented that he was "not talking about what we did at all" and said some of the claims were "nonsense". Shortly after the report the Bishop of Guildford, Andrew Watson disclosed that he was one of Smyth's victims. After the abuse became public, Graham Tilby, national safeguarding adviser for the Church of England, said: "Clearly, more could have been done at the time to look further into the case." Smyth was excommunicated from the Church-on-Main in Cape Town after church leaders said he refused to return to the UK and engage with police. On 10 April 2017, BBC News At Ten reported that Simon Doggart was a victim of Smyth, but he had been recruited to administer further beatings. In June 2020, the Church of England removed final diocesan permission to officiate from George Carey, a former Archbishop of Canterbury, having found of him procedural failings, either in his reviewing or not having reviewed by other bodies some of the old allegations against Smyth. Permission was restored to Carey by the Bishop of Oxford seven months later. A book documenting Smyth's abuse was published in September 2021. Bleeding For Jesus: John Smyth and the cult of the Iwerne Camps was written by Andrew Graystone, a journalist and theologian who had been involved in the exposure of Smyth. In January 2022, Winchester College apologised for abuse perpetrated by Smyth, following the release of an independent review that the College had commissioned. References Further reading Graystone, Andrew (2021). Bleeding For Jesus: John Smyth and the cult of the Iwerne Camps. Darton, Longman, and Todd. ISBN 978-1913657123 Pickles, Jan & Woods, Genevieve (18 January 2022). Review Into The Abuse By John Smyth Of Pupils And Former Pupils Of Winchester College 1941 births 2018 deaths Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Alumni of Trinity College, Bristol Members of the Inner Temple British King's Counsel British expatriates in South Africa British expatriates in Zimbabwe Child abuse in England Child abuse in South Africa