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St Anne’s Catholic School and Sixth Form College: Ex-head teacher charged with child sexual abuse
A 48-year-old Southampton man has been charged with alleged non-recent child sexual abuse in Southampton. The charges follow allegations of child sexual abuse, by those in a position of trust, against former pupils at St. Anne’s Catholic School and Sixth Form College...
Former Horsham sports coach found guilty of child sex offence
A former sports coach at a school in Horsham has been convicted of a child sex offence. Ajaz Karim worked at Christ’s Hospital School between 1983 and 1993 and was on Friday (29 November) found guilty of one count of indecent assault on a girl under the age of...
Former choirmaster jailed for 12 years
A predatory public school choirmaster who believed he was 'untouchable' by the law after getting away with child sex offences against multiple victims for over 40 years was jailed for 12 years today. David Pickthall, 66, whose music has appeared in a Wallace and...
Paedophiles behind bars after brave victims speak out
Two paedophiles have been jailed for grooming and sexually abusing boys, now men, in Bolton in the 1980s and 1990s thanks to the brave survivors who spoke out against them. David Marsh, 74, from Northenden, and Anthony Whitehead, 72, from Atherton,...
Former Church of England vicar sentenced for third time for child sex offences
A "predatory" former Church of England vicar faces spending the rest of his life behind bars after he was sentenced for a third time for child sex offences. Ifor Whittaker, 80, previously admitted rape and gross indecency of a young boy in the vestry of St John The...
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby resigns after report finds Church of England ‘covered up’ child sex abuse
The Archbishop of Canterbury has resigned after a report found the Church of England covered up sexual abuse by a barrister. The independent Makin review into John Smyth's abuse of children and young men was published last week. Across five decades in three different...
Former Rhydd Court School Teachers Face Child Abuse Charges
Six former staff at a Worcestershire boarding school have been accused of allowing a cruel culture of sexual and physical abuse to 'flourish' on a 'systematic scale'. It was alleged that sexual activity took place between boys at the Rhydd Court School in Malvern...
Former music teacher jailed for sexual assaults on young boys
A former piano teacher at a boarding school in East Sussex has been jailed for sexually assaulting two young boys. Anthony Roberts, 83, of Framfield Road in Uckfield, worked at Boarzell School in Etchingham between 1965 and 1974, when the school closed. During his...
Former high school teacher jailed for child sexual offences against pupils
A former teacher has been jailed for sexual offences against two pupils at the school where she worked. Rebecca Joynes, 30, who taught at a Manchester high school, claimed there was no sexual contact between her and the first schoolboy and claimed sexual contact did...
Former teacher jailed for sexual offences against schoolgirl
A former teacher has been jailed for sexual offences against a pupil at the school where he worked. Craig Hill, aged 46, who taught at Hall Park Academy in Eastwood, admitted two counts of sexual activity with a child and one count of causing or inciting a child to...
Remedy Law secure 7 figure sum for woman who was left with stents in place for 3 years
CASE STUDY The Claimant developed urinary problems and attended her GP throughout 2007 and 2008 with complaints of recurrent Urinary Tract Infections (UTI). She was continuously prescribed with antibiotics for the recurrent UTI’s. In late 2007 she was referred to...
Case Study – Remedy Law obtain £320,000 settlement
The Claimant had a family history of cardiac events. He was referred for a chest x-ray by his GP, which identified patchy consolidation and liquid in the lung. Thereafter the Claimant was further referred by his GP to hospital following a two week history of...
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