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Another person who let children down.

There's so many with blood on their hands.

And not disowned by the church until he got his stretch.

WiltshireChap wrote: ↑Fri Feb 07, 2020 10:31 am Does anyone happen to know if the Judge's sentencing remarks from the Karim trial were published? I would be keen to read a copy of them.

Not beyond what can be read in newspaper reports.

In some cases they can be offered a tag and released earlier than normal. Sex offenders are one category (violent offenders being the other) who are unlikely to be tagged. It should also be said that although they are not admissible in evidence in court proceedings, lie detectors are used in some a...

My recollection is that they were all (save Burr) given standard determinate sentences which means that they will be automatically released at the halfway point. In theory they are eligible to be released on Home Detention Curfew (tag) four and a half months before the halfway point but in practice ...

These things have gone in phases.

They went through scout masters, then care homes, then young offenders institutions, the entertainment (Saville, DLT etc) " then football coaches.

Teachers have come on at various stages.

I was struggling to remember what happened in the 70s but loringa is right about what happened in the houses.

I remember four different doors to the outside plus the tube led straight up into the boarding houses.

Ridiculous absence of security. We could have been abused in our beds. Sadly some were.

There was a road out on Big Side onto Three Mile Ash (?). It wasn't that far to the Bax from there.

I remember being told that a the gates were locked one day a year to prevent the school roads becoming a public highway. I am sure that day was Christmas Day.

If memory is corrected, none of the house doors were locked at night. The mind boggles at who had access to where.

The fact that McCall is still alive has been confirmed from other sources. I am sure Sussex Police have a cup of instant coffee and a microwave meal ready for his return.

In principle the answer is yes, but I doubt any police force would release such information to a member of the public.

As he is dead he can't be prosecuted, but the investigation may have been kept open in case anyone else came forward.

Got away with it so far.

But the wheels of justice grind on.