Church scandal: Man behind cover-up was abuser

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Church scandal: Man behind cover-up was abuser
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One of his alleged victims told Channel 4 News he needed to be “named and shamed”.

Reverend David Fletcher was the son of a peer and friend of John Smyth – the most prolific serial abuser associated with the Church of England.

David Fletcher’s father was a Labour peer who served in Harold Wilson’s government. His parents’ house was luxurious. And – growing up in the 1970s – they came to see the Fletcher household as a refuge. But they too soon had concerns. And Ali alleges the abuse even continued at evangelical Christian camps in Dorset, run by the Iwerne Trust, she attended in the 1970s and 1980s.

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