The coffee bar is open 7 a. He hopes to be in the Barnett Building next year. Morgan said the 1,square-foot-space will offer a variety of products. When completed, the Barnett will offer apartments, a University of North Florida satellite campus, offices and retail banking on the ground floor, along with Vagabond.
The approximately square-foot store at N. Moody said Duval Mercantile will have regional produce and local baked goods, jams, meats and cheeses and other perishable items. Gordon said Downtown can be tricky for retailers. He said the next step is helping the urban core build nighttime business. Osprey Pointe Association Inc. Taylor Apartments, Chester Ave. Johns County Chamber of Commerce named six new board members for its fiscal year. Dirk Schroeder, owner of Century 21 St. Augustine Properties, was named chair. Mark Nighbor, of Advanced Disposal, will be vice chair. Skip Marsh of Flagler Hospital is secretary.
Mike Davis of A. Moran will assume responsibility for human resources and Moran leadership development while continuing as leader of social responsibility and community advocacy, spiritual care and Baptist Behavioral Health. Scott Wooten, chief financial officer of Baptist Health, was promoted to executive vice president. Wooten will continue as CFO and assume responsibility in development and integration of future strategic business relationships. Grande Pointe Apartments, University Blvd. She is responsible for assisting in the development of a professional practice environment for DeLeon nursing staff and other patient care departments.
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The legal community, family and friends gather for the investiture of Duval County Judge Meredith Charbula. Assistant State Attorney L. Charbula was an assistant state attorney before she was appointed to the bench. The commission may nominate up to six candidates for each vacancy. Thirteen of the applicants are from the 4th Judicial Circuit or the 1st District Court of Appeal, which includes Jacksonville. Kemmerly Thomas and Thomas Winokur. The state Supreme Court on Oct. Rick Scott, who requested nominations by Nov. There could be more applicants for the next governor to select from to fill the vacancies.
Rick Scott, Governor, et al. The group expressed to the court its support for the extension of the application deadline for the pending vacancies until at least the end of November. The group said a diverse pool of applicants is of critical importance and the current applicant pool is not sufficiently representative of women and minorities.
The Apex Virtual Vehicle was developed to provide interactive driver education in the safety of a classroom by utilizing virtual training technology. In addition to the driving simulator, an instructor will assist students and evaluate their progress. Following investigations of, in some cases, court proceedings and in others, complaints filed by members of the public, the state Supreme Court has disciplined five attorneys who practice in Northeast Florida: Green was fired from a law firm that he started with another lawyer for engaging in. In a second matter, a client received inappropriate communications from Green after his separation from the law firm.
The client was intimidated by the nature and frequency of the correspondence. On March 7, Richards was arrested in Duval County for driving under the influence and resisting an officer without violence. She later entered pleas of no contest and was adjudicated guilty of both first-degree misdemeanors.
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Raised in an Air Force family, he was born in North Carolina. Krechowski also has a track record of diversifying his practice of law since was admitted to The Florida Bar in A graduate of the Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center, his first job in the law was as a Florida assistant attorney general specializing in criminal appeals. Krechowski then shifted his focus to environmental law and worked for the state Department of Environmental Protection and then for the St.
Johns River Water Management District. After working daily with the fine points of environmental regulation law, it was his first experience with title insurance litigation. He also got to know the incumbent city attorney, who soon retired. As city attorney, he is involved in myriad facets of municipal law such as public records, open government law, budget.
The caseload was lighter, but the new job involved a lot of travel and after several years, he was ready for a change of pace from insurance litigation and the corporate culture that came with being a staff attorney. This is the place to help me make that happen. John RutherKelly ford nominated Kelly for the award for his contribution to adoption law and his service to adoptive families.
Kelly is a board-certified adoption attorney and a member of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys. Let me help grow your business with smart marketing strategies based on your goals, putting my 30 years of marketing experience to work for you. AAA Mediator and Arbitrator: Who or what inspired you to become a lawyer? A close friend of my family was my first exposure to the practice of law. He got me thinking from a young age that law might be a good career for me. One person other than my spouse who inspires me: It is inspiring to watch someone create a business from nothing and then watch that business grow into something that supports a family and creates jobs for others.
What has been the biggest change in your practice area since you passed the Bar? The impact of social media on discovery. What do you think will be the next biggest change in your area of law? From what I read, the role that artificial intelligence will. University of Florida, B. Wife, Amanda, and two boys, Reid and Rhett. How do you relate your undergraduate degree to your practice of law?
I majored in economics at the University of Florida. It taught me critical thinking skills and allows me to feel comfortable working with businesses and numbers. How did you decide your practice area? And why have you chosen that? My practice areas chose me. Moseley, Prichard, Parrish, Knight and Jones has represented companies in the transportation industry since its inception in , so it was almost a certainty that I would practice transportation law when I joined the firm.
And, since the partner who hired me practices in the areas of business law and probate, I also began practicing in those areas. I enjoyed practicing in those areas of the law from the start and still enjoy my practice today. Special to the Daily Record. If I could change anything in the legal system I would take a hard look at the jurisdictional limits for small claims courts.
That amount of money is a big deal for small businesses. What community service have you pursued and why that? I have always been interested in teaching, so when given the opportunity to participate in this program, I thought it would be a great way to serve the community and to see if I could withstand the scrutiny of a room full of high schoolers. YouTube Favorite nonwork activities: Watching football and cooking with my family.
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Helow is looking for a second site, possibly at the Beaches or Durbin Park. His ventures have included commercial printing, a design firm, an ad agency and a photography studio. I was looking to buy a business that would allow me the freedom to not be tied to it. I know nothing about cutting hair, so I selected a great manager who happened to have worked in a Roosters in Texas.
When people come in the door, the first thing they notice is the atmosphere. To have the visibility I have on San Marco Square has been a boon. I grew up on the south side of town. San Marco is familiar to me. I used to come as a child to the theater on Saturday mornings when they had cartoons for children and the big Tootsie Rolls. San Marco had the bowling alley and I came to the drugstore for ice cream sundaes.
I decided I really do want to own my own business again and thought maybe at my age, I was 64, that a franchise is the answer. It was the right decision to make. I check people in, I take phone calls and make appointments. The similarities in all my businesses has been the highest quality. It could have been haircutting, it could have been a pizza place, it could have been a music-lesson place, as long as it was the best of the best.
I sit at the piano or guitar every day at home. I have three grown daughters. The oldest, Katie, is a singer-songwriter and just opened a yoga studio in Murray Hill. My middle daughter, Audrey, got married in January and lives in Portland, Oregon, and has a flower farm and is an equine therapist.
My youngest daughter, Meredith, gravitated to Portland and is getting ready to open a social media marketing firm. I just love what I do. I love coming in here. Katie, Audrey and Meredith Hometown: Adams Street, Jacksonville, Florida The date of first publication of this notice is November 8, Anthony Van Ness, Esq.
This notice is provided to Administrative Order No. Please contact the ADA Coordinator at crtintrp coj. The permit authorizes a Minor Modification of Permit No. The project is to be constructed and operated as per plans received by the District on October 31, The receiving water body is Julington Creek. A person whose substantial interests are or may be affected has the right to request an administrative hearing by filing a written petition with the St.
Pursuant to Chapter and Rule 40C A petition must comply with Sections The District will not accept a petition sent by facsimile fax. Mediation pursuant to Section These conditions include, but are not limited to, the petition being in the form of a PDF or TIFF file and being capable of being stored and printed by the District. The right to an administrative hearing and the relevant procedures to be followed are governed by Chapter , Florida Statutes, Chapter , Florida Administrative Code, and Rule 40C Failure to file a petition for an administrative hearing within the requisite time frame shall constitute a waiver of the right to an administrative hearing.
If you wish to do so, please visit http: Lenny Curry Mayor Nov. A Mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting will be held at All Bids must be submitted in accordance with Invitation to Bid Number , which may be obtained after 8: Disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded a full and fair opportunity to submit a response to this solicitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, or national origin in consideration for an award.
Owner has the right to recover possession of vehicle by posting bond in accordance with Fla. Any person s claiming any interest s in the above vehicles contact: Lic AB Interested Parties must call one day prior to sale. The date of first of publication of this Notice is November 8, Joyce Cuffy Chestwood Ave. Any person claiming an interest in the surplus funds from the sale, if any other than the property owner as of the date of the lis pendens must file a claim within 60 days after the sale.
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The selected firm s shall be required to execute the Duval County School Board standard form of agreement. Applicants are advised that plans, drawings, specifications for these projects become the property of the Owner. Applications are to be sent to: Joslyn Vann Antoinette Burgess, Esq. Dated at Jacksonville, Florida, this 5th day of November, Susan Shepeard Castelli Resident: Unknown Last Known Address: The Condominium parcel consisting of Unit No.
Lauderdale, FL , and file the original with the Clerk of the Court, within 30 days after the first publication of this notice, either before or immediately thereafter, otherwise a default may be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This notice shall be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in the Jacksonville Daily Record.
Movant counsel certifies that a bona fide effort to resolve this matter on the motion notice has been made or that, because of time consideration, such effort has not yet been made but will be made prior to the scheduled hearing. CRAWFORD, if alive, and if dead her unknown spouse, heirs, devisees, grantees, creditors and all other parties claiming, by, through, under or against her, Defendants. CRAWFORD, if alive, and if dead her unknown spouse, heirs, devisees, grantees, creditors and all other parties claiming, by, through, under or against her, whose last known address is East 25th Street, Jacksonville, Florida , and whose present address is unknown, and all claimants, persons who are parties, natural or corporate, or whose exact legal status is unknown, claiming under any of the above-named or described Defendants or parties who are claiming to have any right, title or interest in and to the land hereinafter described: Ronnie Fussell, the Clerk of the Circuit Court, will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash by electronic sale at: A person claiming an interest in the surplus from the sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the lis pendens must file a claim within 60 days after the sale.
Dated this 5th day of November, Alejandro Gonzalez Rutgers St. Rockville, MD Last Known Address Stated Current Residence Unknown and any unknown heirs, devisees, grantees, creditors and other unknown persons or unknown spouses claiming by, through and under the above-named Defendant s , if deceased or whose last known addresses are unknown. Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from the sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Lis Pendens must file a claim within 60 days after the sale.
You MUST appear at this hearing. Pursuant to Sections Kleer, Scott Eugene Hofmann, Scott Hofmann, Ernest Hofmann and Ashlee Hofmann, if living and if deceased, their unknown spouses, heirs, devisees, grantees, creditors and all other parties claiming by, through, under or against them Residence s ; Unknown Last Known mailing address: Augustine, Fl Scott: Johns, Fl Ernest: Company Principal Place of Business: Unknown Last Known mailing address: Lot 5, Together With The North Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from the sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Lis Pendens, must file a claim within 60 days after the sale.
Dated this 31st day of October, Dated at Jacksonville, Florida, this 7th day of November, Gregory A Peterson Nov. To obtain a copy of the Solicitation visit procurement. Deadline for questions regarding the solicitation is Questions must be submitted in writing to procurement jtafla. The Jacksonville Transportation Authority is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages expressions of interest for the described services from Disadvantaged Business Enterprises.
Proposals must be received no later than 2: Personal Representative Henry E. The Clerk of the Court, Ronnie Fussell will sell to the highest bidder for cash at: Ronnie Fussell as the Clerk of the Circuit Court will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash at: Dated this 25th day of October, You are receiving this notice as the biological son of the Petitioner, Darrell Bryant Bonapart, who is your biological father. TAKE NOTICE that in order to participate in and receive further notice of the proceeding, including notice of the time and place of any hearing in this matter, you must prepare a response and file it with the Clerk of Superior Court no later than forty 40 days after the date of the first publication of this notice, exclusive of such date.
In the event you fail to respond, the Petitioner will seek a decree of adoption without further notice to you. Upon issuance of the decree of adoption, a parent and child relationship will be established between H. This the 19th day of October, Attorney for Petitioner Monroe Road, Ste. Jacksonville, FL , will have a cash auction per FL. The following storage units are delinquent in rents and fees, and will be sold to satisfy the debt. Units may consist of HH goods, misc. E Gail Baker We reserve the right to refuse any and all bids.
Odom, whose address is MacBeth Rd. If you fail to do so, a default may be entered against you for the relief demanded in the petition. The action is asking the court to decide how the following real or personal property should be divided: You may review these documents upon request. Failure to comply can result in sanctions, including dismissal or striking of pleadings. Rm , Jacksonville, FL , before service on Petitioner or immediately thereafter. JORDAN, if alive and if dead his unknown spouse, heirs, devisees, grantees, creditors and all other parties claiming, by, through, under or against him; HAZEL JORDAN, if alive and if dead her unknown spouse, heirs, devisees, grantees, creditors and all other parties claiming, by, through, under or against her, Defendants.
JORDAN, if alive, and if dead his unknown spouse, heirs, devisees, grantees, creditors and all other parties claiming, by, through, under or against him, whose last known address is Acosta Street, Jacksonville, Florida , and whose present address is unknown, HAZEL JORDAN, if alive, and if dead her unknown spouse, heirs, devisees, grantees, creditors and all other parties claiming, by, through, under or against her, whose last known address is Acosta Street, Jacksonville, Florida , and whose present address is unknown, and all claimants, persons who are parties, natural or corporate, or whose exact legal status is unknown, claiming under any of the above-named or described Defendants or parties who are claiming to have any right, title or interest in and to the land hereinafter described: The papers showed that the children had long histories of involvement with social services and painstakingly documented injuries.
In many cases a convicted paedophile was living in their houses, and many had made very convincing disclosures of sexual activity with adults. We drove to Northallerton on a Wednesday evening, ready to begin filming the following day. It was a surreal — and deeply disturbing — moment.
Happily, Chanel 4 was then a far more serious broadcaster than it is now. Within days it had brokered a deal whereby my own production company would make the film; I would take leave of absence from Yorkshire TV to do so, and — under pain of having its lucrative daytime Countdown quiz-programme terminated by Channel 4 — Yorkshire TV would then take me back on a longer contract.
The health authorities for whom the paediatricians worked refused them permission to be interviewed, and Sue Richardson was informed by her then employer — a child welfare charity — that if she appeared in it she would be dismissed. She resigned instead — and her interview was vital in conveying the truth about Cleveland.
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Two telling sections of the film summed up the entire crisis. The first was a section which showed file footage of one of the Cleveland parents making an emotional appeal on a breakfast television programme: Yet the truth was that he had been convicted of buggering his children — sometimes in front of his wife: The second was the discovery that in the wake of the Butler-Sloss enquiry, the Department of Health ordered all records of all the children as a group to be destroyed. When we asked for an explanation, the Department refused to comment.
Just what was Cleveland really about? For me it was clear: The truth of what happened to those children was too difficult to hear. Which is why we called the film Cleveland: The case casts another shadow over the Roman Catholic Church, which has been the subject of a series of accusations that it harboured priests who abused children. The dismissal was formally reported to the board of managers at the home, which was part of the Middlesbrough Diocese. But the brotherhood also pointed out the diocese held recorded evidence of the dismissal.
He was consequently able to train at Ushaw College in Durham and was ordained in When he died last year, aged 87, the diocese held a funeral Mass attended by the current bishop — Bishop Terry Drainey — and 20 other priests. Mr Hartnett told police the priest said he was compiling a dossier to send to the bishop. The priest, who has since retired and is into his 80s, denied the existence of any dossier. A recently discovered article from Capital Gay magazine reveals how libel threats were used to silence newspapers who reported on the Elm Guest House paedophile ring.
Sir Michael Havers played a leading role in the Sir Peter Hayman cover-up , and told Geoffrey Dickens not to name the paedophile diplomat in Parliament. Scotland Yard had earlier confirmed to the Express that they were investigating connections between the missing boys and Elm Guest House. Police are examining whether Sir Peter Morrison could have been linked to the mysterious death of young Vishal Mehrotra in Sir Peter Morrison, the former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party who died in , was a known child molester but was never charged with any crime during his lifetime.
Now police are examining whether the MP for Chester could have had any link to the unsolved murder of eight-year-old Vishal Mehrotra in Last week a year-old man told the Telegraph that Morrison raped him when he was 14 , and claimed Scotland Yard covered it up. There were predatory people there who were taking young boys and abusing them. Less than 3 miles from Harting. Michael Mates lived at Durford Mill, Harting. Mehrotra body found Durford Abbey Farm. Orange Circle Durford Mill — Mates. Nicholas Fairbairn and Michael Mates visit Rhodesia together.
It got messy, and Michael Mates helped clean up. Was Thatcher pressurised to make a work-shy, drunk, loose-lipped, red-faced paedosadist her PPS? Why did Thatcher commit political suicide by making a drunken, lazy paedosadist her Personal Private Secretary? Was he the best available? Sir Peter Morrison organised a small Conservative dining group. Leon Brittan was a member. Hope is he called by CSAInquiry. If not, why not? The retired judge leading the Westminster abuse probe has revealed she was appointed to run a previous sex abuse inquiry by her late brother, Lord Havers, when he was Lord Chancellor.
Baroness Butler-Sloss has been under scrutiny over her suitability to investigate claims of a child-sex ring at Westminster because of a potential conflict of interest over her Establishment connections. Now, she faces fresh criticism over her admission of the key role of Lord Havers in the Cleveland child sex abuse inquiry in which she led.
Former activist Anthony Gilberthorpe says he sent Thatcher a page dossier in accusing Cabinet members of abusing underage boys. Anthony Gilberthorpe says he sent her a page dossier in accusing Cabinet members of abusing underage boys at drug-fuelled conference parties. Mr Gilberthorpe, who was a young Tory hopeful when he was asked to recruit for the parties, said: I believed she had to know. He said that being overlooked for the safe Tory seat of Gloucester in April made up his mind to shop the ministers.
I made it very clear to Mrs Thatcher most trusted ministers had been at these parties with boys who were between 15 and I also said I had seen Michael Havers at a party in Blackpool held at the hotel pool in Former Attorney General Sir Michael Havers is today accused of passing on state secrets to a rent boy in the aftermath of a sordid sex party in Westminster.
The Yorkshire Ripper and the unsolved Swedish murders. Chadwin also defended Arkwright. Sir Michael opened the day trial by telling the judge, Sir Justice Boreham , he did not believe that Sutcliffe was guilty of murder. He told the judge he accepted the view of doctors who diagnosed Sutcliffe as a schizophrenic. Sir Stuart helped draft the new law and was instrumental in its passage. Neil Kinnock brought Bell on to the front bench as a Northern Ireland spokesman. The book was a raunchy semi-autobiographical story of little literary merit….
With such a prestigious client he quickly found others, including Hewlett Packard and General Motors, and started to specialise in the lucrative area of European trade and international tariffs.
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Although he had borrowed a house in the constituency from his Daily Mirror friend while contesting Hexham, and as a city councillor in Newcastle upon Tyne , his jet-setting pursuit of politics soon started to eat into his fortune. First he had to sacrifice his magnificent country home swimming pool, tennis court in Chantilly, outside Paris, then his young mistress, and finally his senior partnership in a firm that employed more than a dozen lawyers, and along with it his apartment Eiffel Tower view in Avenue Montaigne.
Radio was also attacked in Parliament. Mr Proudfoot had previously been a Conservative MP and, as someone with an interest in politics, o ffered late night airtime on his station to various politicians. Harvey Proctor, a student at the University of York and Chairman of the University Conservative Association, was invited to produce a number of half-hour political programmes for Radio Right-wing Tory MP Patrick Wall took part in one show during which he spoke in favour of recognising the illegal Smith regime in Rhodesia now Zimbabwe.
Government MPs were incensed but Mr Proudfoot defended his actions by saying that Labour representatives had been offered equal time, but had turned it down. The political broadcasts continued. Harvey Proctor later became an MP himself, representing Basildon from to and Billericay from to , before a sex scandal ended his Parliamentary career. Maggie casts her mind back:. It is actually a mini-mansion in spite of its modest name.
She was also known for her relationships with noblemen , including the Prince of Wales , the Earl of Shrewsbury , and Prince Louis of Battenberg. Lillie Langtry allegedly bore him an illegitimate daughter, Jeanne Marie. In June , she became pregnant. Her husband was not the father; she led Prince Louis to believe that he was. Langtry was a regular in high society- and counted Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle as close friends. He praised his friendship with the family who owned the house to his success in his career. By a fluke she married someone called Kelly, the same as her maiden name.
All my cousins were quite super and all in all it was a magic experience in a magic place. Day 3 — Cleveland police refused to investigate signs of anal abuse and publicly condemned doctors and social services for intervening. In Cumbria, as in Cleveland, the police not only did nothing, they did it with determination — they ignored the abuse alarm raised by the forensic pathologist and resisted a mandatory Serious Case Review. Mister Hardcastle, it transpires, is quite a fan of Anna Racoon aka Susanne Nundy, who has been described on various internet forums as an MI5 disinformation agent.
He gives her a hearty recommendation on his website. I feel obliged to share with you my correspondence with Alan Rusbridger on the matter and let your followers come to their own conclusions. I provided the Guardian with all the information I passed to Tom Watson but not one word of it has appeared in print by them to date.
The almost total lack of coverage by the British media of the events leading up to the setting up of Operation Fernbridge, despite the availability of numerous potential stories that are not sub judice linked to high level historic abuse, is exceptionally worrying. I thought Jon Henley wrote an intelligent piece about the mixed academic and medical opinion on paedophilia.
I think it desirable, not irresponsible, to write seriously about in-depth research into this disturbing area of life. I was interested to read about how thinking had changed over time and to hear from a range of experts who deal with offenders. You will be aware that the Guardian was responsible for exposing the case of mistaken identity to which you refer in your final paragraph. Our article about Lord McAlpine was of a peice with the intelligent approach that Henley showed in his own article. I contacted Alan Rusbridger a week ago to advise him that I intended to post our respective views on your website I have not received a response so must assume he has no objection.
He is a governor of the Ditchley Foundation , [23]. Set in a wooded and pastoral countryside, Ditchley lies twelve miles north of Oxford, and within easy reach of Heathrow Airport and Central London. The use of the house as an international conference centre aptly reflects its history and its transatlantic heritage. Built in the eighteenth century, this residence has served as the site of a number of distinguished international meetings, most notably during World War II when it occasionally became the weekend retreat of Sir Winston Churchill.
Shami Chakrabarti , CBE. But the truth was much darker. The majority of the children had been sexually abused and many were subsequently made to return to the homes they were abused in. In , the Department of Health destroyed all records relating to the children.
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Within two years of the original controversy, many of the children had been re-referred to social services. Retired senior judge Elizabeth Butler-Sloss was named as the chairwoman of a wide-ranging review into historical child sex abuse. However after pressure because of her family links with the case — including a call from former Redcar MP and solicitor general Vera Baird to stand down — the former judge confirmed she would withdraw from the post.
Butler-Sloss had faced intense criticism because her brother, the late Sir Michael Havers, was attorney general during the s when reports of child abuse were allegedly not examined properly. Islington produced part their Report. Islington Council has appointed a pair of top lawyers to examine evidence linking former mayor Sandy Marks to a pro-paedophile campaign group in the early s, and whether a government inquiry into the rape and assault of children over at least three decades could have been skewed.
She also questioned the terms of reference, saying: That completely undermined all the work I was doing. Dr Davies said she would have preferred the lawyers to examine not just the White Report, and the 13 internal Islington Council probes that led up to it, but the period afterwards at the town hall.
Was Roger Moody employed in Islington as a youth worker based within a school? Which school was he working within? Was Islington Council his employer? If so, was Sandy Marks aware Roger Moody, as an out and proud self-proclaimed paedophile worked with children in Islington and continued to do so until at least ? Two other pro-paedophile groups with links to Islington were Paedophile Information Exchange PIE and Paedophile Action for Liberation PAL , both of which Roger Moody contributed to meetings and newsletters of, hoping to shape their thinking along more radical socialist revolutionary lines.
Whether Islington Council listens remains to be seen. Rising Free Bookshop was a distributer of alternative books and pamphlets based in Kings Cross. Our paths once crossed at the Rising Free Bookshop a long time ago, but it is also a long time since I exposed the Islington child abuse scandal in I have, ever since, lived and breathed the ongoing issues which that raised. Even recently, various survivors have come forward to me and I have continued to learn about the vast extent of harm that they experienced. There has never been a survivors group in Islington for the victims of the abuse and so I still remain a contact point for those who come forward.
In this Times article, Sandy Marks is cited as pledging to sack senior staff if the government proved they had acted unprofessionally. There were some changes made in social services management after the Inquiries. I am struggling to understand why my professional work was so despised at the time leaving me in great difficulty in trying to protect the children. If that was not bad enough, child abuse campaigners have long thought that the networks in the two boroughs were connected eg Were Islington and Lambeth paedophile rings connected?
How can a lawyer possibly investigate the abuse network on one hand and yet also have acted for a culpable party of the abuse network on the other? How can he be seen to be impartial and fair or independent? Further to that, in this case he is acting for both simultaneously. It is a cut and dried conflict of interest. Goudie should choose to resign. He cannot possibly continue with this conflict of interest. Victims and survivors will not be able to trust him knowing the job he is doing now.
On the offchance that even with his insider knowledge of Lambeth abuse, Goudie does not realise this conflict of interest, I have sent this article to him. The terms of reference — what a mess. Everyone knows that Inquiries have many times in the past been deliberately limited by their terms of reference.
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This is not only far too narrow, but is actually absurd. Setting up an inquiry into whether a relatively quick and small but revealing investigation, essentially about 1 person, could reasonably be said to question the integrity of an already discredited Report? What if the answer is Yes, which already is quite clear, what then?
What a waste of time, but perhaps that is the intention? The terms of reference of the inquiry should be to find out the truth of what happened, to find out the facts. Sandy Marks was Mayor and Social Services Committee Chair but she also chaired the London Boroughs Regional Planning Committee between which made decisions about putting children into secure units. However Sandy Marks is just one person who was politically influential at the time. There are many others that need to be looked at. He must have some comment to make about this scandal which took place during his time in Islington.
Surely he can be helpful to survivors now and reveal what he knows? There was abuse in 22 Islington homes and foster placements over 40 years with many abusers and facilitators. Animal hospital where Rolf Harris TV show filmed is closing down. Australian entertainer Harris was well known for his Animal Hospital series for the BBC which ran for a decade until The youth of Andover Estate recently got together with a London film maker Michelle Golding [1] to produce a film [2] rebutting the Ann Widdecombe programme.
Young residents put across their side of the story to demonstrate that they are more likely to be victims of crime than perpetrators. The film highlights the actual reduction in crime on the estate over the last couple of years and the problem of much of the crime being committed by non-residents. It also discusses the negative impact created by the sloppy journalism of the Ann Widdecombe film.
This was brought into sharp focus by the murder of a 14 year old boy in July His highly acclaimed album Council Estate of Mind is believed to be about his upbringing in this area. Johnny Rotten also grew up on the nearby Six Acres Estate. According to a council report into inequality, Islington has the second highest rate of child poverty in England , with no one working in more than three quarters of the poorest households. Christopher Priceasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement about the exclusion of the head of the education department by the governor of Holloway prison from that institution on the grounds that he was in contact with a former inmate; and what is his policy about such contacts.
Mellor As part of their general responsibilities for assisting prisoners in preparing for release prison education officers sometimes maintain contact with former prisoners after release. But under rule 81 of the Prison Rules they are required to make the governor aware of such contacts, and it is open to the governor to prohibit them if in the particular case he considers it advisable to do so in the interests of good order and discipline. I understand that in the case to which the hon. M ember refers the governor considered it necessary to prohibit contact by the education officer with a particular prisoner and instructed him to give a formal written assurance that he would comply with that instruction.
When the education officer failed to give that asssurance the governor requested his employer, the Inner London Education Authority, to withdraw him from the prison pending a formal hearing of the case as provided under his conditions of service. That hearing is due to take place on 26 May and it would be inappropriate for me to comment further at this stage. Jimmy Savile interviewed Jeremy Thorpe in Mr Harding has been many things in his life, including an engineer, a journalist, a Dominican Friar, a librarian and a member of the RAF.
He left the RAF when it seemed the powers that be were about to direct his talents toward making bigger and better atom bombs — not a prospect he relished. He is a Freeman of the City of London and an internationally acclaimed maker and restorer of clocks, musical boxes and various other intriguing machines. He regularly advises leading auction houses.
He and his small team at Northleach have grateful clients all over the world , from prestigious museums and galleries to private collectors with deep pockets and a taste for the exquisite and unusual. When not busy with such matters, Mr Harding has found time for cave diving, the violin, playing in a brass band and studying ancient written languages, among other pursuits. Keith Harding started dealing in antiques while still an engineering student. In , Harding delivered a paper, The Ethics of Conservation, to the British Horological Society, which is now an international work of reference.
Their next big commission, a clock for an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. In John Allen was living in Bisley, near Stroud. About 30 miles from Keith Harding in Northleach, near Cirencester. The interview panel for the role of Secretary to the Albany Trust was a committee of five men and one woman. Already known to most in his role as Treasurer before Grey were the familiar faces of an elderly genitourinary surgeon , a Labour inner-city MP, the Bishop of Woolwich, a published criminal psychiatrist and a young married couple in town from up North.
Besides Mr Walker, the others present were. Rolph and Jacquetta Hawkes, although I believe that most, if not all, of these had told Kenneth Walker of their views. In , banning foreign Scientologists from entering the UK a prohibition which remained in force until E — - In he had co-written with a pschoanalyst the book Sexual Disorders in the male. The hospital had moved grounds several times since being founded in the s to end up near Union Chapel, Highbury and Islington station with a Royal Charter from It was one of the first hospitals to receive wireless radio on the wards.
He works part-time for the Trust, one day a week on Saturdays sub-editing for The Observer in their offices on Fleet Street and part-time writing a book for the Steel industry for the next five-six years. Speaking exclusively to Daily Star Online, she said: I believe they were in a ring of some sort. Gangster Ronnie Kray and top politician Lord Boothby in They were billeted at East House Lodge, Hadleigh, and placed on the roll of local schools. It was the first time we ever went to the county and we got to like the country.
A phrase used by Boothby when The Mirror outed him. Ken Clarke Secretary of Health when Savile, was put in charge of taskforce at Broadmoor, that housed the sickest and most violent offenders. Mr Clarke was last night forced to defend himself, saying: Why was murderous child-rapist and VIP pimp, Jimmy Savile, given the keys to high-security psychiatric hospital, Broadmoor? Was it because, as well as being able to freely abuse residents, he was also able to stay in close contact with notorious killers, Ian Brady, Ronnie Kray and Peter Sutcliffe?
Tony Oliver was 13 when his brother Bernard was murdered In January , police in Tattingstone, Suffolk , discovered a suitcase containing the mutilated body of Bernard Oliver. The dissected body of Bernard Oliver, 17, from Muswell Hill, north London, was found dumped in two suitcases on farmland in Tattingstone, near Ipswich, on 16 January That question has certainly been asked by the Daily Mail.
Clare Jervis has sympathy for boy-lover Benjamin Britten, composer of opera Peter Grimes, taken from poem about a sadistic fisherman who loses boys overboard. Britten also wrote Billy Budd, another sadistic ocean-faring opera featuring sadism towards the young…. The fact that Benjamin Britten was deeply fascinated by adolescent boys throughout his life is no secret.
TWO doctors wanted for the death and homosexual assault of another boy were the prime suspects in the Tattingstone suitcase murder, it can be revealed today. Martin Reddington and John Byles both denied any involvement in the strangling and mutilation of mentally disabled teenager Bernard Oliver in January, But detectives investigating one of the most horrific crimes Suffolk has ever known, pinpointed the pair as suspects from an early stage in their inquiries. And when the case was reopened, in , their links were again closely scrutinised. By this time, the case against them had grown even stronger.
But, in a remarkable hole in the investigation, Dr Reddington was never interviewed in connection with the offence. It was decided there was insufficient evidence to extradite him from Australia, where he was living in Original documents from the massive murder probe reveal they were jointly wanted for a string of sickening crimes, including gross indecency and buggery.
And one involved the murder of a boy in London in , after an apparent homosexual relationship. The previously unrevealed evidence is able to be published today due to the new Freedom of Information Act which will become law at the beginning of next year. However Suffolk police granted permission for the file to be opened two months early after a request by The Evening Star. The death of the boy in London in was a crime which had striking parallels with the gruesome death of Mr Oliver, whose severed body was discovered packed into two suitcases.
Tests on the remains revealed Mr Oliver had taken part in homosexual acts prior to his death, although his friends insisted he was not gay. But before police inquiries could be completed, he fled the country for South Africa. Despite several attempts, the warrant was never executed and his guilt neither proved nor disproved. It was known he made a number of return visits to the United Kingdom since leaving, although no evidence was ever found to place him in Suffolk or North London in January The strong lack of leads to back up suspicions against the pair hindered the investigation from day one.
Despite every address in the area being searched, the crime scene was never established — nor was any link with Suffolk. The only possible clue was the local knowledge of Colchester-born Dr Reddington, although Dr Byles denied any knowledge of the county when interviewed. A private investigator in Muswell Hill provided one of the fascinating pieces of evidence in the entire investigation. She claimed to recognise the suitcase used to discard the body parts of Mr Oliver, pointing to the distinctive P. A initials on its side. She told detectives she spoke to a man in a launderette on numerous occasions and vividly remembered the suitcase being brought in containing his dirty washing.
And when the inquiry was reopened in , she picked out a photograph of Dr Reddington as one of three men she recognised as owning the suitcase. Another other clue that caused suspicion to fall on the two doctors was the expert way in which the body was cut up. Neatly severed into eight parts, the precise and deliberate nature of the operation meant only an expert could have carried it out.
A consultant surgeon at the then Ipswich and East Suffolk Hospital decided the crime was most likely to have been committed by a doctor, surgeon or medical student. But despite this growing weight of evidence by the late s, Dr Reddington went to his grave without ever answering any questions relating to the crime. He died in May , aged By now, Dr Byles had committed suicide in , after being arrested and charged for an indecent assault in London, while in Australia. The year-old left two suicide notes beside his body, one to Reddington, and another to Scotland Yard.
The note to police contained an apology for what he had done, but there was no direct reference to the Tattingstone murder. He was thought to have been responsible for the death of a cabin boy. Eric Shields, a former detective sergeant with Suffolk police, was one of the officers who worked on infamous crime nearly 40 years ago. This was a group of professionals that in stood trial at Leeds Crown Court and were found guilty of the sexual abuse of young boys including abuse within the Holy Trinity church, Huddersfield, and the trade in child sexual abuse images to Copenhagen and Amsterdam.
Dr John Byles Body is missing doctor: The Evening Standard In , it was revealed McAlpine had owned the artwork of convicted paedophile Graham Ovenden — artwork that depicted naked children. Peter Blake and Graham Ovenden have been criticised for their interest in painting young female models. David Hamilton suicide Controversial British fashion photographer David Hamilton, 83, was found dead in his Parisian home Friday, emergency services sources said, just weeks after being accused of rape by several former child models.
Hamilton , known for his widely published nude images of underage girls , was found in a state of cardiac arrest an informed source said, adding there was medication near his body. He was declared dead an hour later. Hamilton, who rose to fame in the s and whose photography books have sold millions of copies, this week threatened to sue his accusers, saying he had previously been cleared of abuse. The artist, whose work has long raised questions about where art ends and pornography begins, was at the centre of a raft of allegations after a French radio presenter accused him of raping her when she was Flavie Flament, who modelled for Hamilton almost 30 years ago, published an autobiographical novel last month in which she told of being raped by a famous photographer during a shoot.
Flament, 42, later told French media that it was Hamilton who had raped her after three other women contacted her with near identical allegations. He was born in London in and studied architecture as a young man, but it was in Paris where he first started to work in fashion, having moved there aged 20 inspired by the impressionist painters.
He first worked as a designer at Elle magazine and then as an artistic director at the luxury Le Printemps department store. With no formal training in photography, he found his calling aged 33, seeking his models in the streets and on the beaches. Under the French statute of limitations, charges must be brought within 20 years for rape and 10 years for sexual abuse.
Photocopies made at the library were found in the possession of Charles Stephen Davis, 49, who has served two prison terms for child molestation. After a one-day, nonjury trial, Davis was convicted Tuesday of one count of child molestation for assaulting a 7-year-old girl and three counts of possessing child pornography.
Most of the pictures that Davis possessed he had taken himself at Balboa Park, using a hidden camera to photograph the crotches and undergarments of young girls as they played on swings or sandbox slides. Along with those pictures , Davis had copies of photographs from two books in the reference section of the downtown library: Ovenden and Hamilton are English photographers.
If they normalise this behaviour it lets them all off the hook? Why force it on visitors? What, in the end, does Hepburn hope to achieve by doing so? Again, he comes back to censorship: An art gallery came under fire last night for staging a major exhibition about an artist who abused his two daughters and slept with his sister. Gill died in , aged 58, and it later emerged that the girls had suffered years of sexual abuse at his hands. He also had an incestuous relationship with his younger sister Gladys, and conducted sexual experiments on his dog.
The show, which opened yesterday at the Ditchling Museum Of Art And Craft in East Sussex, features a nude drawing of Elizabeth from and a woodblock showing a naked Petra from Fay Maxted, chief executive of the Survivors Trust, said: If you add the financial element, it becomes even more distasteful.
Some residents in Ditchling, where Gill lived between and , also criticised the museum. Jazz musician Herbie Flowers, 79, said: Museum director Nathaniel Hepburn said: David Hockney supported Graham Ovenden. Judge Michael Addison said Waters was in a position of trust when he committed the seven counts of indecent assault on a male and five of indecency with a child.
The incidents took place in the s and s. The court heard that Waters was told to leave the school following allegations made against him. In , he received a five-year sentence for indecent assault, reduced to three-and-a-half years on appeal. In , he was sentenced to 10 years for indecent assault, reduced to six on appeal, and he received another 13 months for taking indecent photographs in The study was not actually commissioned by the the Department of Health but was partly funded by them for one year.
There was no active decision not to publish [10] [App1]. Ms Hewson has enthusiastically encouraged such abuse [of the journalist] over many months and engaged in direct abuse and harassment [herself]. This is not acceptable behaviour from a practising barrister. I and my legal team will robustly defend any civil or criminal proceedings that she, or any anyone else, initiates against me.
The BSB does not comment as to whether or not individual barristers are the subject of a complaint or a disciplinary investigation. If a complaint is received, or if information about potential misconduct by a barrister comes to our attention, it is dealt with in accordance with the procedures set out in detail on our website. The experienced lawyer also received widespread criticism after she called for the age of sexual consent to be lowered to just They allowed her to behave appallingly. Interesting comment under Legal Cheek article on Barbara Hewson….
After her early-morning deletions red , Ginny Hewson goes back to delete references supporting Milo orange. Really, this is incredible, ciabaudo. An Irish Barrister attempting to close down exhibition spreading awareness of child sexual abuse? This woman must just hate survivors of CSA….
She wants to discredit anything to do with CSA. GhandisOPhoenix thewakeupcall09 SpectreDetector ciabaudo bournemouthuni sharp as a knife.. His comments pose grave questions over his suitability as a free man! He should be detained. It also poses grave questions about the bunch of mates surrounding Barbara Hewson and Simon Just who willingly engaged with him. I asked BarbaraHewson a simple, valid question: Why does she associate with a vile convicted paedophile like you?
How can you claim to represent CSA victims and tweet with this vile paedophile at the same time? Oh dear, what has happened to the account of GhandisOPhoenix? He served as the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley from to You seem to condone her behaviour! Do you associate with her campaign? One fellow MP denouncing him as unfit for public office. And as of yesterday he is also the man who drove his long-suffering wife to criminality. Keith Hammerton and Roger Gleaves are both convicted paedophiles. Why has he gone silent on issues like this? The MP for Birmingham Yardley added: The Mail on Sunday has also learned that children from UK local authorities, which have also been the subject of abuse allegations, were taken on holiday to Haut de la Garenne, where the bone fragments are said to belong to five children whom detectives believe were killed.
It found it made payments to Jersey for child care between and Yet a social work file survived on only one child. Schools Minister Kevin Brennan has told the Commons that checks are unnecessary because children from the UK cannot be placed in care in Jersey without a court order. Yet the five Birmingham children were sent to Jersey without such orders. Key staff were from Jersey or had strong Channel Islands connections. The council told Mr Hemming that checking its records would cost too much. Liz Davies, the former Islington senior social worker who bravely blew the whistle on the scandal, said last night: They literally swapped beds.
Haut de la Garenne finds. Lenny Harper and the non-existent dead bodies. Barbara Hewson has been accused of online and other abuse. She came to prominence after calling for the age of consent to be lowered in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal. The chambers, which is also home to the civil liberties lawyer Michael Mansfield, QC,… https: Writing for the Daily Mail, she called for the inquiry into historic abuse to be closed. So you want to give ageing paedophiles a leg-up? Among those to have been convicted is former BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall, who admitted 14 charges of indecently assaulting girls, including one aged nine, between and The Hardwicke chambers , where Ms Hewson works in London , said it dissociated itself from her comments.
In a statement, Hardwicke said: Staff at the Shirley Oaks home, doctors, teachers, vicars and football coaches have all been named. Staff at the Shirley Oaks home, doctors, teachers, vicars and football coaches have all been named in the report. That was the ability to control the movement of children and that was replicated in Lambeth council. Shirley oaks and Edward Heath all connected. My hubby went on so called sailing holidays too jersey from Shirley oaks.
Sir Richard Sharples murdered, a close friend of Ted Heath. Sir Richard Christopher Sharples. In he became the youngest to-date National Chairman of the Young Conservatives. Robin Walker — press officer for Oliver Letwin. De Cogan, born in Ireland, was also a musician of international acclaim who was appointed Head of Strings at the boarding school, which boasts Rupert Everett and James Norton among its alumni, in The married man, who has two adopted daughters, tutored her in the violin.
The girl, now in her 20s, said in a victim impact statement read to the court that her musical ambitions after university had been thwarted by what she has gone through. Judge Andrew Stubbs told him: De Cogan, of Kilburn village, North Yorkshire, admitted ten counts of sexual activity with a child while in a position of trust. He was jailed for 28 months with half to be served and ordered to sign on a sex offenders register for ten years.
De Cogan bowed to the judge and smiled to his family before being handcuffed in the dock and taken into custody. His wife of more than 25 years who sat in the public gallery was said by the defence to be standing by him. During his time in Manchester, he worked extensively with special needs children particularly with the Royal Schools for the Deaf. Formerly the Royal School for the Deaf, Queen Victoria bestowed royal patronage upon them during her Jubilee year in Seashell Trust has maintained strong connections with the Royal family and in recent years they have had the pleasure of welcoming several members of the Royal family to their site, notably Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
He became Head of Strings at Ampleforth College in and was involved in coaching various youth orchestras, as well as private individual tuition. He job was to teach classroom music to year 9, and music technology to years 12 and He provided individual tuition on violin and viola and directed the Pro Musica Ensemble, the Ceilidh Band and jointly directed the College Orchestra.
Alongside his classic music interests, he has played in many folk music ensembles and has worked widely in the recording industry. Among the allegations are that some pupils at the Royal School for the Deaf in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, Greater Manchester, suffered broken bones and lost teeth, while others were subjected to unwarranted restraining procedures. NSPCC officials also investigated claims that deaf or emotionally disturbed children had been punched, tied up and doused with water hoses.
New training procedures had also been introduced. A year-long child protection investigation carried out by the NSPCC for the council severely criticised the Royal Schools for the Deaf Manchester over allegations of abuse between and Four members of staff were suspended last year and police investigations resulted in five cases being passed to the Crown Prosecution Service. The CPS has rejected four of the cases. The full NSPCC report is confidential, but the school has agreed to implement a point action plan published by the council.
Today, despite the year-long inquiry into unexplained injuries to children as well as into poor care and practice, it emerged that no one is likely to face criminal prosecution. Youngsters at the school are regarded as incapable of giving evidence in court. Last year the MEN revealed how Mark Fisher, 33, — who later resigned in disgust after nine years as a support worker at the school — and two colleagues compiled a dossier detailing allegations of abuse by staff.
The evidence was handed to social services and to the police. Unless significant immediate action was taken by the school, the society would advise parents to move their children elsewhere. The investigation was launched after the M. It was claimed children suffered broken bones, were tied up in wheelchairs and one was hosed down with cold water. The current chief executive, Ian MacLeary, retires on July 1, when he turns The charity says his retirement is unconnected to the scandal.
Four members of staff were suspended by the school, which said there were innocent explanations for injuries suffered by pupils. Heath made a special point of conducting orchestras involving young musicians. While still prime minister, he conducted the Academy of the BBC at the 50th anniversary concert in the series for children founded by Sir Robert Mayer. He became its president, and conducted it on summer tours in , and It was to be a flagship for pan-European cultural co-operation. The musicians, some of whom were as young as 14, were drawn from the then nine member nations.
He would also be its guest conductor for that tour and several tours to come. In an intriguing development, the Mail learned this week that a file relating to Sir Edward and the infamous Paedophile Information Exchange group is one of those missing from official Government records. It is among missing files concerning child abuse identified by an independent review of how allegations were handled by the Home Office. Investigators discovered that the file disappeared more than 25 years ago after being moved to a Westminster record centre.
They concluded that there was no evidence of any orchestrated attempts by officials over three decades to cover up child abuse. But the unexpected absence of the file raises questions about the exact nature of the connection between Heath and the PIE group. Further new allegations of sexual abuse and possible official cover-up concerning Sir Edward have come to light. They centre on his relationship with the European Community Youth Orchestra. The policeman — a widely respected officer with a distinguished career — asked that due to the sensitivities of the Heath investigations, he remain anonymous.
He told us that the rumours did not come with any specific evidence against the former PM. But he went on: I understand there were credible claims that Heath indecently assaulted young people on tours to the Continent which he was leading. I suspect it is because they took place overseas and the victims were from other countries. The real reason why PIE existed……. A LEADING Roman Catholic school has been rocked by abuse allegations after a music professor appeared in court accused of sex offences against a girl more than 30 years his junior.
Irish-born classical musician and composer Dara De Cogan, 57, was appointed performing arts professor at Ampleforth College, North Yorkshire, in The gifted violinist is charged with 12 counts of sexual activity with a child while in a position of trust. The court heard the victim was a girl aged 16 and 17 at the time of the alleged offences between December and December His court appearance came just weeks after it was confirmed Ampleforth is to be included in one of three public hearings carried out in the national child sexual abuse inquiry.
Reports of child sex offences at Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire were disclosed yesterday at a public hearing of an inquiry into the handling of abuse allegations by the Catholic church. As a case study, the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse IICSA is examining safeguarding policies at two fee-paying boarding schools run by the English Benedictine Congregation — Ampleforth, and Downside in Somerset.
Since three monks and two lay teachers at Ampleforth have been convicted of sex offences against pupils, but Ms Karmy-Jones said that the inquiry had been notified of multiple allegations against about 40 monks and teachers. Mr Scorer urged the inquiry to consider recommending a change in the law to make failure to report abuse a criminal offence. The abusers were not only men in positions of trust; they were seen by the abused, and their families, as spokesmen for the God they worship.
It is hard to imagine a greater hold that a child abuser could have over his victim. The congregation expresses profound shame that any child has been the victim of sexual abuse whilst in the care of the schools connected with its abbeys. Boys as young as six allegedly beaten and sexually assaulted at Roman Catholic school in Yorkshire, inquiry into child abuse hears. Priests at a leading Roman Catholic school abused boys as young as six, including beatings and sexual assaults, the national inquiry into child abuse has heard.
Former pupils at Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire gave evidence to a hearing in London on Wednesday, and written statements by other former pupils were read. Many of the allegations centred on two priests, Piers Grant-Ferris who was jailed for two years in for 20 counts of indecent assault on boys in his care, and another priest referred to as RCF4.
In his second year, when the witness was eight years old, he said Grant-Ferris would walk behind boys sitting at long refectory tables for meals and select children for beatings. Once he was beaten in the chapel confessional by the priest after being told to take off his clothes. I think technically that was a form of rape. He said he believed that Basil Hume, who was abbot of Ampleforth Abbey for 13 years until appointed archbishop of Westminster in , had been aware of abuse at the schools.
Another witness, who was sent to Gilling Castle at the age of six, told the hearing that he and other boys would cry under their blankets at night as monks wearing long black robes patrolled the dormitories. As a result of his experiences, he said: The inquiry also heard from a female former pupil at Ampleforth College, who left the school in She said that a music teacher, Dara De-Cogan, had sexually abused her over a period of years. De-Cogan was jailed for 28 months earlier this year pleading guilty to 10 charges of engaging in sexual activity while in a position of trust.
The witness said that he had groomed her from the age of 13, and his abuse resulted in her self-harming. On some occasions, De-Cogan gave her marks out of 10 for oral sex, she said. In some cases, abusers were permitted to stay in their posts and allowed to have contact with children and other vulnerable individuals, the hearing was told earlier this week. Piers Grant-Ferris — His secret past as a serial abuser of young boys at Ampleforth.
He was an officer in the Irish Guards before becoming a novice monk in the Benedictine Order in Life in Jersey revolved around hunting, golf, motor yachting, and farming. Lord Harvington was also a noted breeder of pedigree sheep and former president of the National Sheep Breeders Association. Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher and her husband were among the guests on his yacht. Sir Robert Grant-Ferris, Baron Harvington Although he appeared to be fairly typical of the Conservative knights of the shire, a landowner and sheep breeder, who was noted for his passion for hunting and whose other principal recreation was yachting, Robert Grant-Ferris was a product of Douai rather than Eton, and he had the unusual distinction of owing his knighthood and later his Barony to the Labour Prime Minister, Harold Wilson.
Although he remained a Conservative, he had come to be more a servant of the House of Commons than his party, and he spent his last four years in the House fittingly enough as Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker. A man of considerable charm and great energy, he was well-liked in the House and thought of as a possible successor when Dr Horace King retired.
However, Selwyn Lloyd was the preferred candidate of the Conservative Party. Her sister had bought the property in and Mrs Ferris moved in with her. Robert could often be seen as a child riding his pony in the grounds. Robert was educated at Douai, the independent school run by the Benedictine monks of Douai Abbey at Woolhampton. Early in life he hyphenated his name, adding an additional Grant to it.
He made his early career in a firm of estate agents with whom his family had connections, but his eyes seem to have been firmly fixed elsewhere, on politics — he was elected to the Birmingham City Council in — and on flying. He began taking his bar examinations in and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in They had two children, a son, Piers, who became a monk and taught at Ampleforth, and a daughter, Sheila, with whom he later lived in Jersey. It was fortunate that neither parent lived to see their son identified and tried for the abuse of pupils in his care.
In the General Election he fought Wigan as a Conservative but lost heavily. Less than two years later, in February , he fought St Pancras North in a by-election and won narrowly. Grant-Ferris had little impact on the Commons in the late 30s, arguably because he was concentrating on becoming a front-line airman. By he commanded one of the flights in his squadron and in was promoted to Wing Commander. During the war he saw active service in France, Malta, Egypt and India.
Towards the end of the war he gave up active service for a return to more active participation in the House of Commons and became PPS to W. Morrison, the Minister of Town and Country Planning However, he was swept out of the Commons in the Labour landslide of by 7, votes and did not continue as the Conservative candidate for St Pancras North. Instead he concentrated on his farm and on his directorship of the publishing company, Burns, Oates and Washburne.
He became deputy chairman on the Board of the Roman Catholic weekly, The Tablet, a role that he relinquished only in November Although a by-election was called in St Pancras North in , Grant-Ferris was not called upon to fight it, and his next attempt at Parliament was in Central Wandsworth, a seat that he failed to take in both the and General Elections. Nantwich, which he won in the General Election gave him a safe berth until he chose to stand down just before the February election.
In he became one of the panel of Chairman, who chair standing committees in the Commons. He was well known for his fairness and amiability, and there were many who thought that he would make an excellent Speaker. In he was appointed deputy Speaker and Chairman of Ways and Means. He had been knighted in and he was sworn of the Privy Council in He took his title from the house that his mother had given to the Archdiocese of Birmingham.
He was elected a Vice-President in and was chairman of the original All-party Waterways Committee. His strong opposition to abortion was thought to emanate from the Vatican rather than the Catholic hierarchy in this country. Grant-Ferris was a notable breeder of sheep, serving as President of the Southdown Sheep Society of England on three occasions , , and presiding over the National Sheep Breeders of Britain He was a man with many interests, keen on both hunting and golf, but his main passion was his motor yacht, the 43 ton Melita.
After his retirement from the House he lived abroad for tax reasons, initially in Malta and then in Jersey, although he would contribute to debates in the Lords when the taxman let him return. THE head of music at a prestigious private school has been suspended following allegations he sexually assaulted a pupil three decades ago. Sean Ambrose Farrell, 49, denied two charges of indecent assault and two charges of gross indecency when he appeared before York magistrates last week.
Ampleforth College, where teacher Sean Farrell worked in the s. Farrell, of Riddings Road, Ilkley, was released on bail on condition that he has no unsupervised contact with children aged under He has been removed from his post at Wellington College, in Berkshire — which counts the late actor Sir Christopher Lee and Will Young among its alumni — several months ago after North Yorkshire Police launched an investigation.
A Wellington College spokesman said: Mr Heath will be conducting an orchestral piece at the request of viewer, and composer, Sybil Howlett. Ted Heath, pictured during his glory years, was a friend of Sting and Bob Geldof. T he investigation was triggered when the same boy, in his early 20s by , made allegations to police about abuse he claimed Father Jeremy had subjected him to.
The monk was not charged after prosecutors ruled there was insufficient evidence against him, and the CPS said the case file was destroyed years ago, the Times reported. Dara de Cogan, 58, received a month sentence and will be on the sex offenders register for a decade. It took a further five years before the Department for Education DfE told Ampleforth he should not be allowed on school grounds.
The preliminary hearing relating to Ampleforth College will be held in London on June 6 to examine procedural issues ahead of the full inquiry which is due to start in December. Inquiry officials have previously revealed more than 4, potentially relevant documents have been obtained from the English Benedictine Congregation and from schools including Ampleforth.