Rt Rev’d Andrew Watson, the Bishop of Guildford, has said that he is a survivor of ‘appalling activities’ perpetrated by John Smyth QC, a former Iwerne Trust chairman facing multiple allegations of abuse. Bishop Andrew said, ‘It was abuse perpetrated by a misguided, manipulative and dangerous man, tragically playing on the longing of his young victims to live godly lives.’ An investigation by Channel Four found that both the Iwerne Trust and Winchester College had learned of allegations of abuse by Mr Smyth in the 1980s but failed to report them to the police. One man told the programme that some boys had been beaten so badly by Mr Smyth that they had to wear nappies to staunch the bleeding. When one of the men tried to take his own life, the Iwerne Trust launched an investigation. It compiled a confidential report in 1982, which described the beatings of 22 young men: eight of them received about 14,000 strokes. A statement from the Archbishop of Canterbury said: ‘We recognise that many institutions fail catastrophically, but the Church is meant to hold itself to a far, far higher standard and we have failed terribly. For that the Archbishop apologises unequivocally and unreservedly to all survivors.’