A former Scout leader and housemaster at a children’s home in Nottingham has been jailed for 26 years after a jury found him guilty of historic sexual abuse. Steven McNally, now aged 67, abused five children between 1974 and 1979 when he worked at Nazareth House...
School and Teacher Abuse
Charles Spencer, Princess Diana’s brother, speaks out about ‘devastating’ abuse at British boarding school
Charles Spencer, the younger brother of the late Princess Diana, was only 8 when he was sent away to an all-boys boarding school in the English countryside. Maidwell Hall catered to the upper crust of British society. But Spencer says what he experienced from...
Nicholas Brooks – Meoncross School teacher guilty of non-recent sexual offences against a school pupil
Paedophile Nicholas Brooks, now 71 and of Park Gate, was a teacher at Meoncross School in Stubbington at the time of the offences, which took place between 2008 and 2011. The allegations came to light after a woman approached police in 2020 to report abuse she...
Maurice Lambell – Boarding school employee jailed for sexual abuse
A former staff member of a boarding school who sexually abused five boys there has been jailed for 25 years. Maurice Lambell was sentenced after failing to turn up to a 3 October hearing where his co-accused Keith Figes was jailed for 27 years. Lambell, an...
Keith Figes jailed for 27 years for boarding school abuse
A predatory paedophile responsible for a "campaign of rape against children" has been jailed for 27 years for abusing boys at a boarding school. Keith Figes was a "housefather" at Berrow Wood School in Worcestershire and supposed to look after children with...
Alexander Ralls jailed for abusing Queen Ethelburga pupils
A FORMER staff member at a school near York who sexually abused pupils has been jailed for 16 years. Alexander Ralls, now 47, held child protection and safeguarding posts while working at Queen Ethelburga’s College, Bradford Crown Court heard. During a four...
Derek Turner – south Essex music teacher who sexually abused children is jailed
A music teacher who sexually abused children has been jailed for 12 years. Derek Turner, 66 of The Oaks, Wickford, appeared at Basildon Crown Court yesterday where he was jailed after being convicted of a series of vile sex crimes. An investigation into Turner was...
Piers Le Cheminant convicted of 11 counts of child abuse
A retired teacher is facing jail after being convicted of sexually abusing boys at two boarding schools. Piers Le Cheminant, 77, taught at Oakwood School in Chichester and Salisbury Cathedral School between the late 1960s and early 1980s. Complaints about his...
Teacher jailed for abusing student banned from teaching for life
A former teacher who was jailed for indecently assaulting a pupil has been banned from teaching for life. Christopher Sillitoe, who until recently lived in Calstock and is now in his 70s, was jailed for four years in 2021 for crimes committed in Essex 40...
Surrey private school pupil will ‘never forget’ abuse from paedophile teacher
A former private school pupil sexually abused by a paedophile teacher "will never forget" what happened to him. The man, who wants to be named only as ‘AP’, attended independent prep school Chinthurst School in Tadworth between the ages of four and 12 where he was...
Crosfields School: Reading headteacher Frank Skipwith jailed
Former teacher Frank Skipwith, from Oxfordshire, was sentenced on Monday, January 31 at Hove Crown Court after he abused a number of children at two different boarding schools over a 12-year period. According to reports, Skipwith become headteacher at Crosfields...
Former Oldham primary school teacher jailed for sexual abuse
A former teacher who sexually abused 19 pupils while working at two primary schools has been jailed. Christopher Pickup, 76, of Underwood Way, Shaw, had attacked the pupils at two schools in Oldham in the 1970s and 80s, Greater Manchester Police said. He was convicted...
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