The Archbishop of Canterbury has changed his account of how much he was involved with a Christian summer camp run by a Trust whose chairman is being investigated by police for abusing children.
The Most Rev Justin Welby said in February that he had been a dormitory officer at Iwerne Christian camp during the mid-1970s after allegations that John Smyth, chairman of the Trust that ran the camp, had groomed and beaten more than 20 boys and young men.
The archbishop had previously said that he had “no contact” with the organisation between moving to Paris in 1978 and his return to Britain in 1983, the period during which the abuse is alleged to have taken place. It is understood that the alleged abuse happened