Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. But after Findlay made a complaint in 2012, Scottish police discovered that Jones moved straight to another school in England and then to teach in Kenya, where he died in a car crash. The bursar promised that Jones would leave the teaching profession, the family claim. Findlay told his parents shortly afterwards they complained to the school and then to the local police.īut the family say they were persuaded not to press charges by the school bursar, even though Jones had assaulted another pupil. The teacher, Derek Jones, gave him pills that he said were painkillers before sexually assaulting him and photographing him. One evening in autumn 1990, the 12-year-old was in bed in his dormitory, in pain from a rugby injury and unable to sleep. That was successful: it has set an important precedent that has recently helped other ex-pupils of Scottish boarding schools who have made claims of assault obtain six-figure sums.įindlay had a similarly long battle for justice. Kate and her lawyers had first to obtain a ruling from the Scottish courts that a “time bar” on civil cases for damages could be lifted, because the trauma from the attack was so severe. At 16, Kate had disclosed the attack to a psychiatrist working for the school, who had been tasked with investigating her behavioural issues. Kate had been relentlessly bullied for years after the rape, and the senior school appeared to have known about her plight. With the criminal case derailed because of the vagaries of Scottish corroboration law, Kate and her lawyers, the specialist firm, Slater and Gordon, decided to sue for damages.
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The Observer was told by the Procurator Fiscal, Scotland’s Crown Prosecution Service, that in England the trial would have gone ahead. Just days before the court case was due to start, a key corroborating witness dropped out citing mental health concerns. In 2014, a man was due to go trial for this alleged rape and that of another 13-year-old girl at the junior school. After years of mental health problems, Kate first went to the police in 2012, when her daughter reached the same age as she had been when the student teacher forced her to have sex in a tent, while other girls on the trip to the Scottish Highlands listened.
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