John Smyth victim calls for more bishops to resign over abuse cover-up

A report into the abuse found Stephen Conway, who was the bishop of Ely in 2013, showed ‘complacency’ in his handling of the issue. Photograph: Church of England

One of John Smyth’s victims has called for more bishops to resign over the church’s cover-up of sadistic abuse, and has claimed the church is still failing to tackle safeguarding.

In the late 1970s and early 80s, the victim, who uses the pseudonym Graham, was made to strip naked in Smyth’s soundproof shed where he was beaten with a cane until he bled.