The sister of a 16-year-old boy who drowned while swimming naked at a Christian holiday camp in Zimbabwe run by child abuser John Smyth blames the Church of England for his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The Church knew about the abuses that John Smyth was doing. They should have stopped him. Had they stopped him, I think my brother [Guide Nyachuru] would still be alive,” Edith Nyachuru told the BBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The British barrister had moved to Zimbabwe with his wife and four children from Winchester in England in 1984 to work with an evangelistic organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This was two years after an investigation revealed he had subjected boys in the UK, many of whom he had met at Christian holiday camps run by a charity he chaired that was linked to the Church, to traumatic physical, psychological and sexual abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p> What was meant to an exciting holiday camp ended in death for one Zimbabwean boy.
Our story about how a failure to act in the UK led to Guide Nyachuru\u2019s death and dozens of cases of abuse of many others in Zimbabwe.
https:\/\/t.co\/XLpLtHzCYg<\/a><\/p>— Shingai Nyoka (@shingainyoka) November 14, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>