Convicted paedophile Colin Gregg lodges appeal against his child sex conviction
Disgraced Gregg was handed a 13-and-a-half sentence after being found guilty of molesting young boys
Apr 1 2017
Disgraced headteacher Colin Gregg has launched an appeal against his conviction and sentence for child sex charges.
The millionaire son of the Gregg’s bakery founder was found guilty of nine counts of indecently assaulting four victims.
A court heard how the 75-year-old charity boss molested the boys, who were aged between 11 and 14, from the early 1960s until the 1990s.
The abuse was carried out in a swimming pool, in a car and at his home gym.
Branding him a “sophisticated, predatory paedophile” Judge Robin Mairs jailed Gregg for 13-and-a-half years at Newcastle Crown Court.
Now, it is understood that Gregg has lodged an appeal against both his conviction and sentence.
Northumbria Police has urged any other victims of Gregg to come forward.
DS Chris Wilson, who led the investigation, said: “The victims in this case showed immense bravery to come forward and stand up in court to give the evidence that ultimately put their abuser through court.
“It was a terrifying ordeal for them but their actions have helped convict a predatory paedophile and I am sure that convictions such as this will help encourage other victims of sexual abuse to come forward.
Colin Gregg: Headteacher, businessman, charity champion. Child abuser
He hosted royalty when promoting the Yellow Brick Road fund
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Colin Gregg: Charity champ, abuser and pals with royals – now then now then – who does that remind me of?
The Children’s Foundation is perhaps better known as the Yellow Brick Road Appeal and was launched by its patron The Duke of York in 1990.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/charity-queen-one-million-1664388
Yellow Brick Road charity name changed to the Children’s Foundation
His reputation as a pillar of the community brought him many benefits – he even rubbed shoulders with royalty when the Duke of York, Prince Andrew, came to the North East in January 1993
20 January 1993
The Duke of York, Patron, visits Newcastle, North Tyneside; visits the Yellow Brick Road Appeal at the Royal Victoria Infirmary; as Patron of Children-North East, visits the Battle Hill Family Centre; tours the electronic Bi-Media News Room and the Television Studio; meets families involved in the ‘Rural Action with Families in Tynedale’ project and, as Patron, meets members and staff of the Newcastle Weston Spirit Centre, at the BBC Broadcasting Centre; and visits Parsons (Rolls-Royce Industrial Power Group), Heaton.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/court-circular-1479887.html
Professor of child health Alan Craft (left) at the Yellow Brick Road building which is officially opened tomorrow, pictured with Yellow Brick Road administrator Colin Gregg (right). 17th May 1995 (Photo: NCJ Archive)
Colin Gregg, administrator to the Yellow Brick Road Charity.
22nd June 1995.
Gregg said” From the very beginning the Yellow Brick Road has been a real partnership – between Newcastle University’s Department of Child Health…”
Gregg was at the forefront of the Yellow Brick Road charity and was instrumental in raising £12m for a world class children’s Medical Research Centre in Newcastle.
Sunday Mirror (London, England) > July 7, 1996
Colin Gregg Yellow Brick Road Charity
Sannle Ikurrin @SannleIkurrin
Yellow Brick Road symbol of ritual abuse
FERGIE CHARITY MAN CHARGED
1996
Gregg stood down from his role as administrator of Yellow Brick Road in 1996.
July 1996 – arrested
“Gregg quit the charity in September 1996 to set up a business management consultancy.”
FERGIE CHARITY MAN CHARGED.
7 July 1996
The former boss, Colin Gregg, of one of Britain’s biggest Royal charities has been charged with indecently assaulting a boy of 14.
Colin Gregg, 55, ex-administrator of the Yellow Brick Road charity, was arrested after the teenager told his parents he’d been interfered with following a golf club trip.
He has been bailed to appear before magistrates at Newcastle upon Tyne next month.
The married father-of-three, who was arrested on April 25, had his home in Newcastle searched and a computer disc removed by members of Northumbria Police’s Child Protection Department.
The boy is believed to have told police he was also interfered with in a sauna by Mr Gregg after a cross-country run.
Also in the 1996 time frame:
Colin Stuart Gregg
THE CHILDRENS’ FOUNDATION LIMITED (02528291)
Appointed before 6 August 1991 Resigned on 25 July 1996
THE CHILDRENS’ FOUNDATION TRADING LIMITED (02591794)
Appointed before 14 March 1993 Resigned on 12 March 1999
Feversham Special School Hexham Road in Walbottle, Newcastle, which closed in the late 90s
1996 -2000 – Director – Gregg at Feversham School/name changed to Talbot House School – set up by MIND, the mental health charity, in the late 1960s–
Chilling report of abuse and cruelty at Feversham School
SECRET papers today reveal the harrowing world of the Tyneside special school at the centre of an abuse probe.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/local-news/chilling-report-abuse-cruelty-feversham-1350428
THE charity responsible for a Tyneside school at the centre of a child abuse scandal says it does not know who was in charge of the youngsters.
As revealed in the Chronicle, two former care workers were jailed for abusing their positions to steal the childhoods of vulnerable pupils at Feversham Special School.
The charity Mind was the residential school’s custodian trustee, looking after assets but not running the facility for emotionally and behaviorally-disturbed children, aged from six to 19.
And Mind boss Paul Farmer has admitted he has no idea who was actually in charge of the now-closed special school, where predatory paedophiles Kevin Brown and John Leslie Duncan worked as carers.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/local-news/hunt-feversham-special-schools-governors-1365734
The school, owned by the charity Mind, – warnings about the abuse were ignored.
The charity Mind acted as the residential school’s custodian trustee, looking after assets but not running the facility.
A board of governors managed the school, but Mind says it kept no record of their names.
Mind’s chief executive Paul Farmer said: “We are deeply shocked and saddened by the abuse that took place at Feversham.
“Mind was the custodian trustee of the property from which the school was run and was not involved with day-to-day running of the school.
“Mind is no longer involved with any residential educational establishments.”
The Duke and Duchess of York, Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, have been affiliated with another convicted establishment paedophile – Jeffrey Epstein
Roberts has claimed she had sex three times with Andrew in 2001, including during a group sex session with eight other girls at Jeffrey Epstein’s home in the Virgin Islands.
Roberts has alleged that girls as young as 12 were regularly flown on the £30 million jet to locations around the world where Epstein (and other members of the elite) would abuse them.
2001
It is known Epstein and Andrew regularly holidayed together – from weekends at Balmoral and Sandringham, to trips to New York.
Epstein was, the source told The Times, ‘a big part of [Andrew’s] life’
Prince Andrew sits on a yacht in Thailand back in 2001, during a holiday at a £2,300-a-week resort which is thought to have come courtesy of Jeffrey Epstein
Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein pictured strolling through Central Park together during a four-day break in New York at the start of December 2010 within days of the billionaire giving Fergie the £15,000 payment
Fergie:’I personally, on behalf of myself, deeply regret that Jeffrey Epstein became involved in any way with me,’ she said.
‘I abhor paedophilia and any sexual abuse of children and know that this was a gigantic error of judgment on my behalf.
‘I am just so contrite I cannot say. Whenever I can I will repay the money and will have nothing ever to do with Jeffrey Epstein ever again…
Prince Andrew was expected to hold crisis talks with the Queen today as he returned to Britain from a holiday in the upmarket Swiss ski resort of Verbier with his ex-wife Fergie, Sarah Ferguson
Multiple listings for Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York and Prince Andrew, Duke of York in convicted establishment peadophile, Jeffrey Epstein’s black book
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1508273-jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book-redacted.html
The Duke and Duchess of York are presidents of the Yellow Brick Road, which is trying to raise cash to build three hospices in the north.
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/FERGIE+CHARITY+MAN+CHARGED.-a061167152
ROYAL ENGAGEMENTS
Jan 20, 1993
The Duke of York, Prince Andrew, Patron, visits Newcastle, North Tyneside; visits the Yellow Brick Road Appeal at the Royal Victoria Infirmary.
21 January: The Duke of York, Patron, this morning visited the Yellow Brick Road Appeal, Newcastle University Medical School, Newcastle, and was received by Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant for Tyne and Wear (Colonel Sr Ralph Carr-Ellison).
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/court-circular-1480089.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/court-circular-1479887.html
Royal Victorian Infirmary RVI where close friend of the royal family, Sir Jimmy Savile abused.
Nurse tells of Jimmy Savile’s visits to Newcastle Royal Victoria Infirmary
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/nurse-tells-jimmy-saviles-visits-6360222
Jimmy Savile meets seven year old Lee Claffey of Eastwood Gardens Kenton Newcastle who was visiting the Royal Victoria Infirmary to have his broken arm checked. 7th June 1986
‘Jimmy Savile visited the children’s wards of the Royal Victoria Infirmary in 1986/1987 and 1991.
Nurse Phil Brown remembers encountering the disgraced radio and TV presenter in May 1987 at ward 16 south where youngsters were receiving treatment for leukaemia. Today he is calling on hospital chiefs at the Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to let the public know the exact dates of his visits.
He also claimed Savile was formally invited into the building.
A spokesperson for the trust said senior staff were taking the disgraced star’s alleged visits to the Royal Victoria Infirmary very seriously.
However, on Saturday a statement from Sir Leonard Fenwick, trust chief executive, said no concerns had so far been expressed by staff working at the time.
Mr Brown, a nurse for 37 years, said: “Jimmy Savile visited ward 16 south where children had leukaemia.
“It was in June 1987 and a pivotal weekend because it was the Great North Run. I have rung the NSPCC and police involved in Operation Yewtree as speaking as a nurse, I am dismayed. I’m not the only one who remembers him visiting.
“The moment it came out that he had been in Newcastle I informed the RVI. So far I think they’ve got their dates wrong. People need to be aware he visited in 1987.
“He appeared to be in Newcastle for the Great North Run but for whatever reason he was able to visit the RVI.”
Professor of child health Alan Craft (left) at the Yellow Brick Road building which is officially opened tomorrow, pictured with Yellow Brick Road administrator Colin Gregg (right). 17th May 1995 (Photo: NCJ Archive)
Professor of child health Alan Craft (left) at the Yellow Brick Road building which is officially opened tomorrow, pictured with Yellow Brick Road administrator Colin Gregg
Seahouses Middle School was last week given an award for its outstanding contribution to the North East Children’s Cancer Run by Sir Alan Craft.
Professor Sir Alan Craft with some of the fund-raising pupils at Seahouses Middle School.
Prof Sir Alan Craft launches scathing attack on new North East hospital
- 26 Jun 2013
ONE of the country’s leading experts on childhood medicine has launched a scathing attack on plans to build a specialist emergency hospital in the North East.
But in an unprecedented attack Prof Sir Alan Craft, former president of Royal College of Paediatrics, said the proposals for the restructuring of children’s services in the region was concerning.
Prof Craft, a consultant paediatrician based at the RVI, and his wife, Anne, children’s nurse and director of nursing and former health visitor for North Tyneside, sent a letter to The Journal outlining their views.
Professor Sir Alan Craft
Consultant Paediatrician North Tyneside 1978-86
Professor of Child Health Newcastle 1993-2007
President of Royal College of Paediatrics 2003-2006
Lady (Anne) Craft
Former health visitor North Tyneside
Children’s nurse and Director of Nursing (Matron)
http://www.thejournal.co.uk/news/north-east-news/prof-sir-alan-craft-launches-4478701
Another RVI doctor –Dr Camille De San Lazaro
Lazaro began work as a forensic paediatrician at the Lindisfarne Centre in the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle in 1989 following the Cleveland sex abuse inquiry. This was the first post of its kind in the country.
http://www.thejournal.co.uk/news/north-east-news/abuse-claims-exaggerated-4621265
Current colleagues – Dr Lazaro and Dr Alan Craft
Both attending the Great North Paediatric Conference at RVI 2016
http://www.cher-newcastle.co.uk/programme_conference2016.pdf
She’s still in business despite being “completely discredited”??…
We hope that everyone who finds themselves relying on the medical services that Dr de San Lazaro is still allowed to provide is told of her track record.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/just-how-bad-can-doctor-1576127
Lord Justice Kennedy told the court that in the 2002 libel trial, the doctor had been “completely discredited” in relation to her handling of a number of allegations of sexual abuse prior to February, 1995.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/abuse-cases-doc-face-probe-1603253
2002 –
Calls were today made for a review after a North East man had his conviction for raping a boy overturned because of the evidence of Dr Camille San Lazaro.
Dawn Reed and Christopher Lillie
Dr Lazaro, senior lecturer and consultant paediatrician at Newcastle Royal Victoria Infirmary and Newcastle University was criticised for her role in the investigation into” false” claims of abuse at a Newcastle nursery by Dawn Reed and Christopher Lillie.
The pair were accused in a Newcastle City Council report of systematic sex abuse of dozens of children at a Newcastle nursery. But Mr Justice Eady declared them innocent of all charges and condemned the report as a legal `shambles.’
...supplying children to a paedophile ring whose members had raped and abused their young victims, and used them in the making of child pornography.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/abuse-cases-doc-face-probe-1603253
Her evidence has been blamed for Kevin Brown’s conviction. He has served his seven-year sentence for raping the five-year-old boy.
Brown’s first appeal was dismissed in 1997 but his case was referred back to the Appeal Court by the Criminal Cases Review Commission which investigates claims of miscarriages of justice. The CCRC obtained three medical reports, including one from a doctor at the forefront of the 1987 Cleveland Child Sex Abuse Inquiry, that suggested injuries to the boy may not have been caused by a sexual act. Ruling the conviction unsafe, Lord Justice Kennedy said medical evidence at the trial had been oversimplified to the detriment of the defence. He added that a large part of the prosecution case at trial had been reliant on evidence from Dr San Lazaro.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/abuse-cases-doc-face-probe-1603253
Looks as though Lazaro was a ringer to ruin any sex-abuse cases.
The Yellow Brick Road charity became The Children’s Foundation – headed by Prince Andrew as Patron
“We have not received any evidence since the conviction that there are any further victims of Colin Greggs who have not yet reported abuse to us.
“However, if there are victims out there then we will listen to them and we will believe them regardless of whether the abuse is recent or of a historical nature.
“These sorts of offences are not, and nor have they ever been, acceptable behaviour and national media stories over the last few years should provide reassurance of that to any victims out there.
“Safeguarding vulnerable victims of crime is our absolute priority and if there are other victims out there then we would encourage them to come forward. We will believe you.”
Gregg helped set up the family business and also worked as a charity fundraiser, a social worker and as a headteacher at a prestigious North East school.
Gregg, of Homefarm Steading, in Gosforth, Newcastle, claimed he was the victim of a police witch-hunt and alleged the complainants were looking for compensation.
But last month a jury at Leeds Crown Court found him guilty of sexually abusing young boys.
As well as 13-and-a-half years in prison, Gregg has been banned from working with children and was ordered to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register for life.
Colin Gregg was employed in the children’s department of Newcastle Council as a social worker where csa was rampant.
Gregg taught at Durham School, a school in Newcastle’s west end before moving to Newcastle City Council’s children’s department as a social worker. He then became the headmaster at Tynemouth King’s School.
The court heard Gregg was a former headteacher in Tynemouth, and Talbot House school, and also taught at Durham School, as well as being employed in the children’s department of Newcastle Council as a social worker.
Professor of child health Alan Craft (left) at the Yellow Brick Road building which is officially opened tomorrow, pictured with Yellow Brick Road administrator Colin Gregg
Alan enjoys filling his spare time with running (31 marathons and 106 half marathons so far
In 1989, Gregg became the director of children’s charity the Yellow Brick Road Fund.
Gregg quit the charity in September 1996 to set up a business management consultancy.
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/FERGIE+CHARITY+MAN+CHARGED.-a061167152
During this time he operated a running club from his home at Homefarm Steading, Gosforth.
The other allegations are said to have taken place between 1988-91, at locations including Gregg’s home gymnasium.
Sasha Wass QC, defending, asked Carol Gregg: “Knowing the allegations, has it caused you any concern that Mr Gregg has contact with your grandchildren?”
The former nursery nurse replied: “Not at all.”
When asked if Gregg’s three daughters have concerns leaving him with their children, Mrs Gregg replied “no”.
The court also heard from Gregg’s former colleague Andy James, who he worked with at Talbot House school in Newcastle.
When asked how the former head teacher interacted with the pupils, Mr James said: “He was highly regarded by the boys who thought the world of him.
“The staff thought he was an innovator with new ideas, which all the children seemed to respond to very positively.”
Ms Wass then asked Mr James if he was concerned by Gregg’s behaviour towards the children.
He replied: “No, not at all.”
Mr James went on to say: “He is very dedicated to young people becoming better people, particularly those coming from deprived backgrounds.”
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/colin-greggs-wife-tells-crown-12619655
The first complainant, now in his 60s, claims Gregg sexually assaulted when he was aged 13 while he was at boarding school.
At the time Gregg was involved with the charity TOC H, a Christian charity.
Doing the math….abuse happened approx 47 yrs ago – 47 yrs ago was 1970 – so Colin Gregg was probably involved in the TOC H charity in the 70’s – when Jimmy Savile was also involved.
ement. is a reg
Toc H archives
istered charity no. 211042 and SC045491
Toc H archives – Jimmy Savile
Jimmy Savile and Toc H 1973
pg 97
http://calmview.bham.ac.uk/GetDocument.ashx?db=Catalog&fname=Toc+H.pdf
TOC H Patron Queen Elizabeth
Sir Angus Ogilvy –Vice-Patron of TocH.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/sir-angus-ogilvy-26233.html
The Guardian, 19 Nov 1965, Fri, Page 2
Jimmy Savile and Rev Dr PB Clayton Founder Padre of TOC H
October 13, 2016
edited 5 months ago
http://www.bridgefm.org.uk/gallery/toc-h/
At Cuffley kept the long-running Jimmy Savile mini-handi dances (now rechristened Jimmy Savile Danceathons) alive.
In 2003 I even managed to get Jimmy Savile to attend…
https://tochcentenary.wordpress.com/2015/12/12/a-personal-journey-into-toc-h-2/
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/9984272._/
http://www.bigredbook.info/tubby_clayton.html
http://www.thejournal.co.uk/north-east-analysis/analysis-news/paul-brannen-story-toc-h-8075719
http://www.allhallowsbythetower.org.uk/partners/toc-h-and-all-hallows-trust/
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/charles-and-camilla-score-with-geordies-1-2400214
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toc_H
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/prince-charles-visits-cochin-shipyard/article5346745.ece
Savile/Newcastle/Marsden
Savile had a relative living at Marsden so was often there- he used to park his car in the carpark of The Marsden Inn.
The Great North Run route in the final stages takes you down Marsden bank
Marsden and Jarrow he visited a lot due to relatives or friends of his mother living there, and Minchellas ice cream parlour in South Shields he was seen in a lot in the 60’s…and then Consett of course, as his mother originated from there He certainly knew the entire area well.
2006
Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall enjoy a cup of tea when they visit a community based charity TocH on November 8, 2006 in Newcastle, England.
Charles and Camilla score with Geordies
The royal couple’s final engagement of the day was to take afternoon tea and cake with local people in Jarrow, South Tyneside as guests of the Toc H charity.
From Stocksfield Primary the couple went on to visit crowds of people in Greenhaugh in Northumberland and went for tea and cake at community project, Toc H.
The couple began their tour of the region with a visit to Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary to help celebrate the hospital’s 100th anniversary.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/royal-variety-for-visiting-couple-1555911
And it was Margaret (Thatcher) and Shirley, when they were a bit older, who would work together at TOC H, the mission for servicemen
Professor of child health Alan Craft (left) at the Yellow Brick Road building which is officially opened tomorrow, pictured with Yellow Brick Road administrator Colin Gregg (right). 17th May 1995 (Photo: NCJ Archive)
The Children’s Foundation Directors:
Professor of child health Alan Craft:
Director of the Children’s Foundation, along with Colin Gregg and social worker Brian Roycroft.
https://companycheck.co.uk/company/02528291/THE-CHILDRENS-FOUNDATION-LIMITED/companies-house-data
Brian Roycroft, Newcastle City Council’s Director of Social Services, stood by the worker and refused to dismiss him. He said there would be disciplinary action “but not of a serious nature”. A slap on the wrist for standing by and allowing 55 children to be abused.
Brian Roycroft was also the Secretary of the Association of Directors of Social Services (ADSS), and took part in the decision not to create a ‘blacklist’ of social workers who had committed similar offences.
Brian Roycroft also was a director of the Community Foundation with Jane Gregg – Colin Gregg’s ex-sister-in-law
https://companycheck.co.uk/director/902131544/MR-ERIC-BRIAN-ROYCROFT/companies
https://companycheck.co.uk/director/902131537/MS-JANE-GREGG/companies
Jane Gregg
Jan 18 2013
NOT so long ago, Jane Gregg was married to the multi-millionaire founder of Greggs the Bakers. It was a life of privilege afforded by the riches the bakery empire bestowed on her family.
Ian Gregg – brother of convicted paedophile Colin Gregg
Married at the time to Ian Gregg – retired founder of the Greggs bakery chain, with a personal worth estimated at £94m
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/health/drugs-hell-of-greggs-family-915056
Jane Gregg and Brian Roycroft – directors
Brian Roycroft and the Tyneside children’s home scandal
Royal Charity – The Children’s Foundation – paedophile-linked
The Children’s Foundation Directors/Patron Prince Andrew – friend of convicted billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein
Convicted paedophile Colin Gregg and Brian Roycroft – Directors
Brian Roycroft, Newcastle City Council’s Director of Social Services, stood by the worker and refused to dismiss him. He said there would be disciplinary action “but not of a serious nature”. A slap on the wrist for standing by and allowing 55 children to be abused.
Brian Roycroft was also the Secretary of the Association of Directors of Social Services (ADSS), and took part in the decision not to create a ‘blacklist’ of social workers who had committed similar offences.
Social Work Today, 26th April 1977
Colin Gregg colleague – Alan Craft Knighted in 2005
Chairman of UK Scout Association
He was involved with Scouting as a young person up to the age of 16, when he became County adviser for Handicapped Scouts in the 80s.
Craft is Chairman of the UK Scout Association and has been selected to carry the Olympic Torch ahead of London’s summer Olympic Games.
http://thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673612609155.pdf
Gregg molested a young boy while he worked as a running coach, a court has heard
In 1989, Gregg became the director of children’s charity the Yellow Brick Road Fund.
During this time he operated a running club from his home at Homefarm Steading, Gosforth.
The runs would start and finish at Gregg’s house at the time, on Linden Road in Gosforth.
Gregg started the now famous run Greggs Children’s Cancer in 1982 Run –
Colin Gregg launched the Greggs Children’s Cancer Run, after pupil Chris Peacock was diagnosed with kidney cancer
Chris Peacock’s cancer was treated by Professor Alan Craft and this year (2013), as in the 20 previous years, he will be taking part in the Children’s Cancer Run.
Chris bounced back from his brush with death and went to The King’s School in Tynemouth, where, at the age of eight, he discovered a passion for running. The then headmaster, Colin Gregg, a member of the famous bakery family, found out about his cancer and decided to set up a fundraising run in Gosforth Park in which his school and others could take part.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/inspiration-to-us-all-1643773
RVI Children’s Cancer Research Unit/Run Dr Alan Craft
sponsored by Greggs
FEB 2013
As well as the five-mile run there will be a Mini one-mile run for the under sevens who must be accompanied by an adult.
The Children’s Cancer Research Unit at the Royal Victoria Infirmary has just taken on two new recruits, pathologist Dr David Ellison, and cancer expert Dr Steve Clifford, to find ways of improving survival rates.
But the pair will only be able to carry out the research if this year’s Children’s Cancer Run is a success and raises at least #150,000. (extortion)
“The staff on Ward 12 are second to none and we owe them – especially Prof Alan Craft – everything.”
The run is on May 13, at Gypsies Green, the Leas, South Shields.
The event is being sponsored by Greggs the Bakers which will provide a picnic for all runners.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/raise-funds-cancer-run-lives-1680916
Runner Dr Alan Craft is part of the Gosforth Running Club – Gosforth is where Colin Gregg lives
http://www.runbritainrankings.com/runners/profile.aspx?athleteid=295122
“I was once at a Vaux dinner/awards function at the Gosforth park hotel about 20 years ago and was sat at the same table as the hotel manager, we got talking about celebs that stay there, and i asked who was the worst, he said Savile but would not go in to further detail why but the disgusted look and way he said it was easy to read.”
https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/jimmy-savile.1213574/page-9
Sacred Heart Church in Gosforth to celebrate centenary
8 May 2012
The church was given a major refurbishment after the arrival, in 1984, of Irishman, Father Tom Cass and while the works were carried out, services were held in a prefabricated building, which became known as Uncle Toms Cabin.
On one occasion, Father Cass persuaded Jimmy Savile, still wearing running gear after completing the Great North Run, to appear at the summer fair. He also once recognised the Irish singer Dana in the congregation and brought her to the altar to sing the final hymn.
The church has a link with Newcastles St Cuthberts boys school, now called now St Cuthberts High School, which itself celebrated its 130th anniversary last year. The present Parish Priest, Father Jim Dunne, was the last of several members of the clergy to teach at the school.
Sir Jimmy was initiated into the Great North Run Hall of fame in 2009
The Jim’ll Fix It host was inducted into the Great North Run Hall of Fame in 2009 and is described on the Nova website as a “universally popular” figure who “was recognised for the vast contribution he has made, particularly with the highly-popular junior runs”.
http://www.thejournal.co.uk/news/north-east-news/sir-jimmy-savile-great-north-4401753
Savile was a regular visitor to the Great North Run
Jimmy Savile at the Great North Run in 2000
But a report found no evidence of any inappropriate behaviour during Savile’s time in Newcastle’s hospitals.
An investigation by the Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was triggered by a former member of staff, who contacted Operation Yewtree detectives after recalling seeing Savile at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in 1991.
The investigation found that Savile had visited the RVI’s children’s wards twice between 1986 and 1991 and had also visited Newcastle General Hospital during the early 1990s.
Trust chief executive Sir Leonard Fenwick said: “Jimmy Savile visited the children’s wards of the Royal Victoria Infirmary in 1986/1987 and 1991.
“He also visited Newcastle General Hospital in the early 1990s, but witnesses were unsure of exact dates.
“…these presentations appeared to coincide with the Great North Run. ”.
Savile, famous for his charity fundraising, took part in the Great North Run at least 18 times and was inducted to the Hall of Fame in 2009.
Asked by The Northern Echo in 2000 if he had a message for the people of the North-East ahead of the run, Savile said: “Lock up your daughters, girlfriends and wives. I don’t want to misbehave b 2007 with ut I can’t help it once I arrive on Tyneside.”
Jimmy Savile at the 2007 GNR with Alastair Campbell (Tony Blair’s former spin doctor)……and former sports minister Richard Caborn.
Alastair Campbell – a runner too…
His main hobbies are running, cycling, bagpipes and following Burnley FC.
He took up running nine years ago has since run the London Marathon, the Great North Run, and the Great Ethiopian Run, and completed several full triathlons, all for Leukaemia Research Fund. He is the charity’s chairman of fundraising.
“Both George Bush and Tony Blair sponsored me in the London Marathon.”
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/other-sport/dressed-thrill-raring-go-1663022
Alastair Campbell friends with Alan Clark MP who was involved in a scandal with two 14 yr old girls –
Clark is involved in a sex scandal with a woman and her daughters — ‘the coven’ — and phones Campbell for advice.
Alan Clark was mates with Alistair Campbell and talked to him about the sexual allegations regarding him having sex with Judge Harkness’s 14 year old daughters.
The Trouble with BBC ‘Children in Need’ Ambassador Max Clifford and Tory MP Alan Clark
In the leaked video Clifford, the legendary PR Guru to the stars and elites let slip that he had successfully hid away the sins of one Tory MP, and ‘diarist’, Alan Clark.
Truthseeker1 @thewakeupcall09
Thatcher & Ian Gow (PPS to Thatcher) both turned a blind eye to Alan Clark affairs
Ian Gow was close friends with convicted paedophile Bishop Ball.
Alastair Campbell is in convicted establishment paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein’s Black Book
There is an entry for Mr Blair’s former spin doctor Alastair Campbell – with a Downing Street number
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1508273-jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book-redacted.html
and for Peter Mandelson 10 entries
^ Tony Blair, Alistair Campbell and Bill Clinton- both Blair and Campbell were in billionaire convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s black book (Clinton took many trips on Epstein’s “Lolita Express”)
Epstein had assembled a powerful network of contacts encompassing the worlds of politics, business, royalty and celebrity and even Bill Clinton.
The inclusion of Lord Mandelson and an office address for Tony Blair has raised questions about the extent of his relationship with the Labour government.
But last night – some 48 hours after the link between Epstein and Lord Mandelson emerged – the former Labour spin doctor was still refusing to comment about his dealings with the disgraced billionaire.
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) > November 13, 2000
THE Prime Minister’s official spokesman was quizzed by police over the murder of TV presenter Jill Dando, it was revealed yesterday.
Alastair Campbell, one of Tony Blair’s closest aides and friends, met officers so they could eliminate him from their inquiries.
He was interviewed after a newspaper wrongly claimed he had joked about being Jill’s lover.
…in April 1999 but officers felt obliged to interview him.
Campbell said he had met her when he reviewed the papers on her breakfast TV show.
He also said: “I believe the police had a number of calls pointing out my resemblance to their e-fit picture of the killer.”
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/BLAIR%27S+MAN+QUIZZED+OVER+DANDO+MURDER.-a066867783
Jill Dando E-fit suspect
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Jimmy Savile at the 2007 GNR with Alastair Campbell (Tony Blair’s former spin doctor)……and former sports minister Richard Caborn.
Alastair Campbell claims Blair did ‘all he could to avoid war’ despite damning Chilcot Report verdict
Spin chief also blamed BBC for driving WMD expert David Kelly to suicide
6th July 2016
…accusations made by the BBC that he “sexed up” a dossier that Saddam Hussein could arm WMDs within 45 minutes.
Campbell blamed the BBC’s reporting for driving weapons expert David Kelly to kill himself.
Mr Kelly had raised concerns with the media that the 45-minute claims were untrue.
Mr Campbell resigned during the Hutton Inquiry into Mr Kelly’s death in 2003.
The Tory government Attorney-General is trying to block their court cases.
Attorney General tries to block bid to prosecute Tony Blair over Iraq War
- Attorney General launched legal bid to throw out attempt to haul Blair to court
- Tory MP Jeremy Wright, the government’s top law officer, launched intervention
Interesting how Labour and Tory stand shoulder to shoulder to protect murderers. Much the same with paedophiles.
Tories face questions over support of Keith Vaz committee appointment
About 150 Conservative MPs voted for Vaz, who stood down as chair of home affairs committee in September over escort claims, to join justice committee
‘He (Alan Clarke) said he had hired George Carman QC,’ writes Campbell in his diaries. ‘I said these people are really just posh Max Cliffords.
Brilliant, he said, posh Max Cliffords! I said be careful, because your interest is in getting this thing buried and forgotten. A lawyer might see the benefit of getting the whole thing to court. Good advice, he said, toodle-pip, and off he went.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/sep/27/alan-clark–
Max Clifford and Alan Clarke
Clark scandal descends into tales of blackmail and lechery
1994
THE SEX SCANDAL involving Alan Clark, the wife of a former judge and her two daughters degenerated further last night with allegations of blackmail and indecent exposure.
Jane Clark, wife of the former defence minister, accused Valerie Harkess, 57, and her daughter Josephine, 34, of demanding pounds 100,000 to keep allegations that Mr Clark seduced them and Josephine’s sister, Alison, out of the newspapers.
Mrs Harkess and her 64- year-old husband, James, a former deputy circuit judge, denounced the blackmail allegation as ‘an absolute lie’. Her daughter accused Mr Clark of betraying her family’s trust by indecently exposing himself to her and Alison when they were 13 and 15.
Dr Alan Craft – Patron of Together With Short Lives charity along with
Simon Cowell and Rosa Monckton and Holly Willoughby
Patrons
- Professor Sir Alan Craft, President – colleague of convicted establishment paedophile Colin Gregg
- Rosa Monckton – Rosa Monckton is a friend of convicted, establishment, paedophile ( friend of Prince Andrew) Jeffrey Epstein
“He’s very enigmatic,” Rosa Monckton told Vanity Fair in 2003. Monckton was the former British CEO of Tiffany & Co. and confidante to the late Princess Diana. She was also a close friend of Epstein’s since the 1980s. “He never reveals his hand . . . He’s a classic iceberg. What you see is not what you get.”
Holly Willoughby of David Cameron / Tory Paedophile List/ Witch Hunt fame
Dr Craft and notorious Professor Samuel Roy Meadow both part of
BRITISH PAEDIATRIC SERVICES LIMITED
https://companycheck.co.uk/company/02158572/BRITISH-PAEDIATRIC-SERVICES-LIMITED/companies-house-data
Death of Sally Clark
Sally Clark died unintentionally on 16 March 2007 from acute alcohol intoxication.[30] She never recovered from the serious psychological trauma resulting from the experience of the deaths of two children, then being unjustly convicted of their murder with subsequent imprisonment leading to her being separated from her third baby.[31]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Meadow
Professor Sir Alan Craft, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said the decision to strike Sir Roy off was “saddening”.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4685511.stm
Professor Alan Craft, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Next week we publish a report, jointly with the Royal College of Pathologists and chaired by Baroness Kennedy, which gives clear guidance on how infant deaths should be investigated.
Dr Alan Craft commenting on convicted paedophile paediatricians Dr Myles Bradbury and Dr Michael Salmon
Former surgeon at hospital where Savile had an office accused of sexually abusing four-year-old girl while reading her bedtime stories
- Bruce Bailey worked at world-renowned Stoke Mandeville Hospital
- He is also accused of raping girl when she was 11 as she waited for op
- Bailey, who died in 2001, is believed to have known paedophile Savile
- He is second doctor at Bucks hospital accused of abusing patients (Michael Salmon is the other)
He was a visiting surgeon at Gujarat Cancer Institute, India. As a result, several young Indian doctors came to work at Stoke Mandeville.
Bruce Bailey Fellowship – hospitals
Bruce Bailey Fellow – 2005
Dr Patrick Gillespie MA, BM BCh, FRCS (Plast)
Specialist Registrar
Plastic Surgery Dept of Plastic Surgery
Addenbrookes Hospital
Cambridge, CB2 2QQ
United Kingdom
^^ that’s where convicted paedophile Dr Myles Bradbury abused children
Bradbury, who used a “spy pen” to secretly capture pictures of his partially-clothed victims, was arrested in December 2013. He admitted 25 offences dating between 2009 and 2013
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-34591633
and RVI
Bruce Bailey Fellow – 2009
Mr Adam Blackburn,
Specialist Registrar in Plastic Surgery,
Royal Victoria Hospital,
Newcastle Open Tyne,
United Kingdom
Greggs’ CEOs involved with Prince Charles…via BITC and through the Prince’s trust
(Sir Michael Darrington)
Sir Michael Darrington ex-CEO of Greggs (ran it for 24yrs) works with the Prince’s Trust
& another Gregg CEO
Kennedy McMeikan was appointed as HRH The Prince of Wales Ambassador for the North East
1996
FORMER Castle Morpeth Mayoress, t , from Ponteland
She particularly enjoyed meeting children at schools and was tireless in her fund-raising efforts for local charities, particularly the Yellow Brick Road Appeal of the Children’s Foundation.
http://www.morpethherald.co.uk/news/former-mayoress-loses-cancer-battle-1-4203476
Son of Greggs bakery founder, 75, is jailed for 13 and a half years for indecently assaulting four young boys
Mar 30 2017
- Colin Gregg, 75, is the son of the founder of the popular Greggs bakery chain
- Gregg had been convicted of nine counts of indecent assault against four boys
- He was jailed for 13 and a half years and described as a ‘predatory paedophile’
‘Your defence was the complainants were fantasists and liars. The jury heard their evidence, given with clarity and considerable courage.
‘They found the lies were on your part and the fantasies were you sexual desires for young boys.’
He showed no remorse, emotion or expression as he stood in the dock to learn his fate.
Mar 3, 2017
GUILTY: Colin Gregg trial jury returns guilty verdicts to nine counts of historic sex abuse
Former head teacher Colin Gregg has been found guilty of nine counts of indecently assaulting four boys.
A jury at Leeds Crown Court deliberated for 11 hours and 43 minutes before reaching eight majority verdicts and one unanimous verdict.
Gregg, of Homefarm Steading, in Gosforth, Newcastle, remained emotionless in the dock as the verdicts were read out by the jury foreman.
Judge Robin Mairs told the married grandfather that he would be sentenced at a later date.
Prosecutors said on the surface Gregg lived a life of decency but in reality he “concealed his true nature beneath a veneer of respectability” and he “exploited his position in society to perpetrate abuse”.
Gregg was granted bail and will be sentenced at Newcastle Crown Court on March 30 at 2pm.
The jury found Gregg guilty by a majority on eight of the counts and unanimously on the ninth.
Judge Robin Mairs told him that the fact he was granting bail was no indication of sentence.
He said: “These are serious matters and a custodial sentence is inevitable.”
The trial at Leeds was a retrial.
A jury failed to reach a verdict when Gregg was tried last year in Newcastle.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/guilty-colin-gregg-guilty-nine-12687007
Colin Gregg was a well-known figure in the North East.
He helped raise millions of pounds for various children’s charities and even hosted royalty when promoting the Yellow Brick Road fund for children.
Children’s Foundation – Patron Prince Andrew The Duke of York
The Duke, who has been Patron of The Children’s Foundation (formerly The Yellow Brick Road Fund) since its foundation in 1990, attended a Reception to mark the charity’s 25th anniversary.
Colin Gregg became the fulltime administrator in 1990 of the Yellow Brick Road Fund.
Charity boss, Colin Gregg, of Yellow Brick Road which raised money for a child health department at Newcastle upon Tyne Royal Victoria Infirmary
Sex case charity boss Colin Gregg cleared in 1997 of assaulting a 13 yr-old boy
The Guardian, 18 Jan 1997, Sat, Page 5
ROYAL ENGAGEMENTS
Jan 20, 1993
The Duke of York, Prince Andrew, Patron, visits Newcastle, North Tyneside; visits the Yellow Brick Road Appeal at the Royal Victoria Infirmary.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/court-circular-1479887.html
Sir James Spence was originally occupied by the Yellow Brick Road Charity, supported by Newcastle University however it reverted back to use by the Trust in 2008.
Through its Yellow Brick Road Appeal, the foundation has raised money to build the Sir James Spence Institute of Child Health at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary.
http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/take-a-walk-for-charity-1-1093619
The son of Greggs bakery founder John Gregg, he took up teaching at the prestigious Durham School, his former school, in 1964.
Three years later (1967) he joined his brother to build up the family business
He later became a social worker for Newcastle City Council, before returning to teaching and eventually becoming a headteacher at the former Kings School in Tynemouth in 1978.
15 April 2016
Former head teacher, employed in the children’s department of Newcastle Council as a social worker, charity boss Colin Gregg, denies 26 indecent assault charges dating from the 1960s to the 1990s, relating to nine complainants aged between 11 and 15.
Assault said to have taken place between January 1963 and December 1991
Seghill and Alnmouth, both in Northumberland
on the premises of schools where he worked, in a dormitory and in a school swimming pool.
Newcastle Crown Court was told the married father-of-three, who became wealthy after helping the family business to grow, has a ‘strong determination to sexually abuse little boys’ and there was a pattern to his offending.
Gregg was also a sports (running) coach.
A court heard Gregg, son of the founder of Gregg’s the bakers, was a biology and chemistry teacher at prestigious Durham School and the complainant was a pupil.
He told jurors at Newcastle Crown Court he was molested in Gregg’s study at the school and in his car.
The complainant said he joined Durham School as a boarder in the 1960s and claimed he was abused within months.
Gregg, of Gosforth, Newcastle, denies all the charges, and his position is that ‘each and every one of the complainants is telling calculated and deliberate lies’, Paul Greaney QC, prosecuting, told the jury.
Gregg trained as a teacher and taught at prestigious Durham School, which he had attended as a boy, the court heard.
A FORMER pupil at a school where Colin Gregg taught told a court he was sexually assaulted by him in a swimming pool.
The man, now in his 60s, says Gregg put his hand inside his swimming trunks while helping him to improve his breast stroke at prestigious Durham School.
Jurors were told the alleged offence in the swimming pool on the grounds of the school is said to have happened in the 1960s, when Gregg was a biology teacher.
Early days:
In 1967 he joined the family business which was started by his father John Robson Gregg (freemason) in 1939, when it was still a ‘modest outfit’
Gregg worked with his brother Ian Gregg for three years and the pair ‘created a very successful and large business which, in due course, became the public limited company Greggs plc‘, Mr Greaney said.
‘As a result of the growth in his family business, the defendant became a wealthy man.’
1969: Gregg returned to teaching, taking a job at St Aloysius, after realising “business wasn’t really for me”
St Aloysius a Roman Catholic -boys-only state school in the London Borough of Islington, North London.
“At the age of about 29, having made a success of his life in business in three short years, Colin Gregg returned to what seems to have been his main interest in life, namely working with children
The prosecution said Gregg will claim the allegations against him were motivated by people trying to win compensation.
In 1970 he returned to working with children but continued to work for the bakery during the holidays and remained a board member.
The following year he became a social worker (1971), then became head of Talbot House, (formerly Feversham), a school for what he termed ‘delinquent children’, the court heard.
Feversham Special School- name changed to Talbot
Talbot House Trust
TALBOT HOUSE TRUST NORTH EAST (03069213)
Hexham Road, Walbottle, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE15 8HW
Role Director
Appointed on 15 November 1996 Resigned on 31 March 2000
Dr Michael Toman – principal of Feversham in 1996 – Feversham closed in Mar 1997
Talbot House (formerly Feversham Special School in Walbottle)
Fears Feversham School abuse victims will be forgotten in child sex abuse inquiry
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/fears-feversham-school-abuse-victims-10521279
Vile abuse of children at a Tyneside special school has not been included in the first phase of investigations planned by an independent inquiry into child sex abuse.
A former social worker who worked at Newcastle’s Feversham school has today told of his anger that the horrors he witnessed at the Throckley establishment might never be made public.
Talbot House (formerly Feversham Special School) in Walbottle)
Ex-Feversham residential school staff jailed for sexual abuse of vulnerable boys
Kevin Brown and John Leslie Duncan who have been jailed for historic sex crimes
John Leslie Duncan, 61, from Gateshead, and Kevin Brown, 58, who was already in jail, were convicted of the abuse they committed against young boys in their care.
The charges related to incidents that took place throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s
Duncan was convicted of 15 charges, which included 10 counts of indecent assault on a male and three counts of indecency with a child, and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
His crimes were committed as he worked at Shotley Park Childrens’ Home in Durham and at the Feversham residential school in Walbottle, Newcastle, both of which have since closed.
Brown was sentenced to six years on top of his current eight-year sentence after being convicted of seven charges, all relating to incidents at Feversham school too.
The report, by Annie Bishop, then inspector for children’s services, was the last time an outsider had observed the controversial school in the Walbottle area before its closure in March 1997.
The charity Mind acted as the residential school’s custodian trustee, looking after assets but not running the facility.
A board of governors managed the school, but Mind says it kept no record of their names.
Mind’s chief executive Paul Farmer said: “We are deeply shocked and saddened by the abuse that took place at Feversham.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/local-news/feversham-school-sex-abuse-suspects-1352535
Hon Lowell Goddard, chairman of the long-running Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), announced what would be included in the first phase of investigations into the extent to which institutions have failed to protect children from sexual abuse.
He later became head of the junior school at King’s School, Tynemouth, and in 1989 became director and administrator of a children’s charity (THE CHILDRENS’ FOUNDATION LIMITED (02528291)) which raised substantial sums.
‘On the surface, he has lived a life of decency, indeed one of distinction,’ Mr Greaney said opening the case.
He said the prosecution case was that Gregg was a child abuser, regularly molesting boys, in a breach of trust.
The complainants, now aged from their 30s to their 60s, were aged 10 to 15 at the time, the jury was told.
As well as the nine complainants which the charges relate to, the court will hear evidence from three others who claim they were abused.
Greggs linked to various members of royal family -Prince Andrew, Prince Charles, and Princess Anne
Children’s Foundation – patron Prince Andrew
Colin Stuart GREGG
GREGGS PLC (00502851)
Role Director
Appointed before 18 May 1991 Resigned on 9 May 2001
THE CHILDRENS’ FOUNDATION LIMITED (02528291)
Appointed before 6 August 1991 Resigned on 25 July 1996
THE CHILDRENS’ FOUNDATION TRADING LIMITED (02591794)
Appointed before 14 March 1993 Resigned on 12 March 1999
TALBOT HOUSE TRUST NORTH EAST (03069213)
Hexham Road, Walbottle, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE15 8HW
Role Director
Appointed on 15 November 1996 Resigned on 31 March 2000
PEACOCKS MEDICAL GROUP LIMITED (00560972)
Role Director
Appointed on 10 July 1998 Resigned on 18 February 2002
PEACOCKS (SURGICAL AND MEDICAL EQUIPMENT) LIMITED (00560985)
Role Director
Appointed on 12 April 2000 Resigned on 23 December 2003
PEACOCKS POSTURECARE LIMITED (03590754)
Role Director
Appointed on 3 May 2001 Resigned on 23 December 2003
SKILLSBRIDGE LIMITED (03942255)
Role Director
Appointed on 10 January 2001 Resigned on 23 October 2008
UK HAPTICS LIMITED (05094437)
Role Director
Appointed on 20 July 2007 Resigned on 3 September 2012
TRINITY CENTRE LIMITED (06510855)
Role Director
Appointed on 20 February 2008 Resigned on 1 September 2011
BEADNELL HALL FLATS MANAGEMENT COMPANY LIMITED (01769905)
Role Director
Appointed on 21 April 2011 Resigned on 11 February 2012
GOOD MORNING PENELOPE LIMITED (07474299)
Role Director
Appointed on 21 April 2011
beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/-FuvTlwVD-TreMU3q8YhrW07gS8/appointments
Children’s Foundation – Patron Prince Andrew The Duke of York
The Duke, who has been Patron of The Children’s Foundation (formerly The Yellow Brick Road Fund) since its foundation in 1990, attended a Reception to mark the charity’s 25th anniversary.
Duke of York visits Newcastle to launch £2m Children’s Foundation campaign
16 Sep 2015
The Royal was at the Mansion House in Jesmond as part of the Children’s Foundation’s new campaign to help young people improve their mental health
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/health/duke-york-visits-newcastle-launch-10068963
www.thechildrensfoundation.co.uk/about/organisation/
Greggs’ CEOs involved with Prince Charles…via BITC and through the Prince’s trust (Sir Michael Darrington)
Prince Praises Greggs’ Work in Community
May 22, 2003
The head of North-East bakery Greggs has won Prince Charles’s praise for his work in taking business into the community.
Mike Darrington was presented with the prince’s Ambassador Award yesterday at a Business in the Community event for his personal contribution to responsible business practice, through the work of the Greggs Trust, fund-raising and other activities such as the Greggs Breakfast Club.
Sir Michael Darrington ex-CEO of Greggs (ran it for 24yrs) works with the Prince’s Trust
By 1983, after growing his family’s chain of bakeries from just one to 300, Ian Gregg stepped down from his role as managing director and handed the mantle to Michael Darrington.
Ian attributes the success of Greggs during the 1980s and 90s to Darrington, who was awarded a knighthood in 2004 in recognition of his services to business and to the community in the North East.
Mike Darrington joined Greggs in 1983 as Group Managing Director.
Sir Michael Darrington :
Education: Lancing College, Harvard Business School
Lancing College – alma mater of the Peter Ball and his brother Michael Ball, Trevor Huddleston & Tom Driberg
Headteacher James Woodhouse from Lancing College wrote in support of Ball
link
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Sir Michael Darrington :
Newcastle University – executive member
University of Sunderland – Sir Michael received an Honorary Doctorate of Business Administration.
Sir Michael set up the Pro Business Against Greed campaign, urging firms to tame excessive pay for leaders and make companies – and society – fairer. (that’s “rich”)
Mike Darrington takes a long term view of developing a business. He is a keen supporter of ethics in business – by putting Values at the heart of the organisation he believed that Greggs people would make a positive difference for themselves, their customers and the wider community – he is also an enthusiastic advocate of the ‘ enjoy ‘ word.
Mike believes that although companies are owned by shareholders, they should also be for the benefit of staff, customers and the wider society.
After previous significant involvements with the CBI Confederation of British Industry and BITC Business in the Community, he is now engaged in a number of charitable activities, including the Prince’s Trust, and also with community projects and campaigning for a fairer society.
CBI
&
Business in the Community is the Prince’s Responsible Business Network
BITC
Who we are:
Founded 1982 -BITC Business in the Community is a British business-community outreach charity promoting responsible business, CSR, corporate responsibility, and is one of the Prince’s Charities of Charles, Prince of Wales
link
BITC The Prince’s Seeing is believing 2006 Review – Sir Michael Darrington – delegate, Leader – Prince Charles
link
Greggs Breakfast Clubs featured at the Business in the Community Annual Leadership summit in 2010. The event was hosted by HRH The Prince of Wales and was attended by Prime Minister David Cameron.
Greggs CEO Kennedy McMeikan was appointed as HRH The Prince of Wales Ambassador for the North East.
Greggs – In 2008, we made pledges to the Prince of Wales MayDay Network (a BITC Business in the Community Programme):
Among the initiatives already under way, BITC has started a series of The Prince
of Wales’s “Seeing Is Believing” visits to Burnley, and as one result alone, Greggs,
Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury’s are backing breakfast clubs in 15 of the
most needy primary schools in Burnley for a minimum of three years.
Greggs and Asda are also supporting the Burnley SPACE youth Bus, working in
partnership with the police, which is deployed to different parts of the town
to provide advice, support and leisure facilities for young people.
19 November 2015
An innovative youth project in Burnley which provides support for disadvantaged youngsters has been awarded £115,000 by Children in Need.
The cash will be allocated to the Space Youth Bus over the next three years to fund six part-time staff members and the running of the bus, which provides a free, safe, friendly environment for young people between seven and 20.
www.princeofwales.gov.uk/sites/default/files/annual-review/HRH%20Annual%20Review%202008.pdf
corporate.greggs.co.uk/sites/default/files/2008-Annual-Report.pdf
corporate.greggs.co.uk/sites/default/files/2010%20-%20Annual%20Report%20and%20Accounts.pdf
INCLUDED in Greggs‘ latest financial results was the news that the baker had created a full time job for one of the homeless people it has been working with.
The Newcastle-based company is signed up to a Business Action on Homelessness project that was launched almost a year ago under the Business in the Community (BITC) banner, and run by Newcastle charity the Cyrenians with pounds 250,000 in funding from the Northern Rock Foundation.
As one of the lead businesses involved, Greggs supplies mentors and work placements for people on the Ready For Work scheme, which aims to get people back into the world of employment after they have been homeless.
Since the scheme started last September, 38 people have been placed with companies in the region, which along with Greggs also includes the likes of M&S, KPMG, NRG, Sage, Carillion and Barclays Bank. Of the placements, 31 completed their work experience and 22 have secured employment.
Greggs chief executive Ken McMeikan said: “This was reviewed at Business in the Community and the North East scheme is the national leader for the number of work placements who then go on to secure employment.
McMeikan’s interest in working with homeless people originally arose after he attended the Prince of Wales Seeing is Believing programme in London.
Organised by BITC, the project takes business leaders out to see homelessness first hand on the streets of the capital.
www.questia.com/newspaper/1G1-264541398/community-conscience-is-good-for-business-following
and current CEO Roger Whiteside
Greggs, the UK’s leading bakery food-on-the-go retailer, is backing “Britain’s Best Breakfast” Campaign as part of a new partnership with Carers Trust.
Carers Trust is a major charity working to improve support, services and recognition for anyone living with the challenges of caring, unpaid, for a family member or friend who is ill, frail, disabled or has mental health or addiction problems.
Greggs CEO, Roger Whiteside, will also be taking a group of carers from its shops to Buckingham Palace this week to meet with Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, who is the President of Carers Trust.
Greggs is proud to support this initiative with a substantial donation; and also during the launch week we dedicated donation buckets in each of our shops nationwide to Carers Trust.
Carers Trust Britain’s Best Breakfast Launch at Buckingham Palace
In celebration of our partnership with Carers Trust, 15 of our shop team members, who also have carer responsibilities, were invited to the launch of Britain’s Best Breakfast at Buckingham Palace in September. The event was hosted by Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, who is the President of Carers Trust.
www.carers.org/press-release/greggs-backs-britains-best-breakfast-campaign
About Carers Trust – Carers Trust works to improve support, services and recognition for anyone living with the challenges of caring,
unpaid , for a family member or friend who is ill, frail, disabled or has mental health or addiction problems.
…given considerable support to carers of all ages including young carers like 12-year-old Amy who’s told us what life is like caring for her mum, sister and brother…
One Church 1st nat’l conference : Colin Gregg at conference attended by Peter Wanless
One Church, 100 Uses
25 March 2011
Gorton Monastery, Manchester
This one-day conference is sponsored by the Methodist Church and the United Reformed Church and supported by English Heritage, the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Big Lottery Fund. It will look at ‘The sticky ball principle and the power of connection’, ‘The Church’s role in the Big Society’, ‘The experience of Salford – reinventing communities’ and ‘Unlimited potential – backing people with passion’ as well as a number of other topics and successful case studies.
jmtpjb.wordpress.com/archive-of-events-march-2011/
which explored how to realise the potential of churches.
The day was comprised of keynote speeches, hands-on workshops, and a competition where churches pitched their project in front of a “dragons’ den-style panel for a prize of £5,000 from UnLtd.
The speeches were from some of the leading thinkers on social enterprise and heritage, including:
Lord Wei, founder of Teach First and Government Adviser on the Big Society
Hazel Blears, MP for Salford and Eccles
Baroness Andrews, Chair of English Heritage
Lord Mawson, social entrepreneur and director of One church,100 uses
Colin Gregg, entrepreneur and lead member of Trinity Gosforth
Anthony Roland, film director and owner of The Roland Collection, the world’s largest collection of films on art
Guy Hollaway, principal partner of Guy Hollaway Architects LLP
Jo Hibbard, Heritage Officer of the Methodist Church
Dr. Jenny Freeman, director of the Historic Chapels Trust
Malcolm McClean, social entrepreneur and director of Bearhunt
Peter Wanless, chief executive of the Big Lottery Fund
Cliff Prior, chief executive of UnLtd
Rowena Francis, moderator of URC Northern Synod
Dr Michael Toman – principal of Feversham in 1996 – Feversham closed in Mar 1997
1996 -2000 – Director Gregg at Feversham/Talbot House Trust
Appointed on 15 November 1996
Resigned on 31 March 2000
July 1996 – the last inspection of Feversham, by Newcastle City Council’s social services department
1997: Gregg stood trial in 1997 and was acquitted of abusing one of those three, the court heard. The other two complainants came forward after publicity about that case but it was decided those allegations should not proceed to trial.
Dec 1996 – Feversham principal is Dr Michael Toman (so Gregg was director at Feversham when Dr Michael Toman was there)
6 December, 1996 (Last Updated: 11 May, 2008)
Feversham is the only residential school in Newcastle upon Tyne for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties. It mops up the violent and disruptive pupils other schools cannot cope with and provides care for those whose families are also in crisis or unable to contain them.
Wonder then, at a time when society is crying out for Something To Be Done about disaffected pupils, that Feversham is closing down at Christmas.
It is closing because the region’s local education authorities will no longer give a long-term commitment to the school. Northumberland in particular, which is creating 90 special education places through pupil referral units, has said the 22 children it currently places in the school could fall to as few as six next year.
“Overnight we became uneconomical. Northumberland put the nail in the coffin,” says Dr Michael Toman, Feversham’s principal.There are 37 children aged between six and 13 attending Feversham, an independent establishment set up by MIND, the mental health charity, in the late 1960s to cater for almost twice that number.
Situated on the western edge of Newcastle, it is a low, spacious, modern building, comfortable and well-equipped, set in ample grounds with all the living and school accommodation ranged around the central dining hall. It is run on tolerant, therapeutic principles and aims to re-integrate children back into mainstream education and with their families.
“Our record is good,” says Dr Toman. “One-third of our children return to mainstream school, one-third go on to day special school and only one-third require further senior boarding provision.” A girl with learning difficulties who had suffered sexual abuse was excluded from her special school because she injured a teacher. Another with cerebral palsy was excluded from her special school for the same reason. Children come with bad dreams and chronic bed-wetting, the classic sign of inner turmoil. But these often clear up after time at Feversham.
Michael Toman argues that no matter how many pupil referral units local authorities provide, there will always be children needing residential education. The weekly boarding offered by Feversham provides stability and security, and often helps keep families “who hang by a thread” together. The school employs a social worker to work with families directly.
Staff constantly praise the positives in pupils and challenge the negatives. “When kids come to us they hate school. They hate teachers and so do their parents. We turn that on its head,” says Michael Toman. Children are on first-name terms with teachers and the ethos is one of tolerance and encouragement. “If we stopped every time we got a kick, a punch or a ‘Fuck-off’, we wouldn’t get beyond breakfast. We don’t approve or condone it, but that is the reality. It might sound woolly and liberal but we do challenge them. We just choose our battlegrounds.
“Violence comes from frustration and an inability to communicate, so we give our kids a language that enables them to express their feelings. They learn to listen to other people’s point of view.”
Every week Feversham holds whole-school and group meetings where staff and children review the week’s events and praise or criticise each other. Children have to learn to be the focus of attention.
“These are children who have previously wrecked classrooms and attacked teachers,” says Michael Toman. “They have to learn to sit down and hear other pupils say how horrible they’ve been. This is what group living is all about. Our greatest strength is that we offer consistency of approach over a 24-hour period. A day school cannot provide this.”
Classrooms are colourful and intimate, with a teacher and assistant for every eight pupils. Staff are trained to anticipate and deflect aggression, and how to hold a child who is being violent so nobody is seriously hurt.
Teachers grow used to verbal abuse one minute and requests for hugs the next. They put in a lot of their own time, taking out pupils who have achieved or been “especially sensible” on a one-to-one basis for trips to McDonald’s or Newcastle’s Metroland. Lorraine Brewis, who teaches the youngest group, says: “They love that special attention. You are more than just a teacher to them. When they have had a bad day they might call you everything from a pig to a dog but when they have calmed down they apologise. They feel so much better if they can do that, it’s a socialising process.
“The children are anxious and disturbed by the closure. It’s a bad time for them. We will all end up with other jobs, but what will happen to them?” Eileen Chapman, a single mother whose only child, David, has been at Feversham for the past two years, says her son “sat and broke his heart” when he learned of the closure. “‘What’s going to happen to me now?’ that’s what he asked.” David, who is 12, was disruptive at middle school and his mother could not cope with him. He spent a short time in foster care. “He would storm out and not come back for hours. There has been a 110 per cent improvement in the past year. I didn’t want him to board but it has been right for him and given me a break,” she says.
Richard and Jacqueline Leightley are concerned for their son Paul, who may have to go to residential school in the Lake District, far from their north-east home. Paul was expelled from his first school at five but has made progress at Feversham. The couple, who are on income support with three other children, are unhappy at the prospect of him being so far away.
Michael Toman is convinced that authorities such as Northumberland will be unable to reduce substantially their need for residential placements. Although Feversham costs Pounds 24,000 per pupil for weekly boarding for 40 weeks of the year, he argues that this is cheap compared to the cost of the family breakdown, police involvement, care and secure units that can follow if children are inadequately catered for at a young age.
Independent residential schools such as Feversham have been out of favour because of some notorious cases of mismanagement and abuse, and because of an emphasis on integration into the community. But Michael Toman believes the pendulum must now swing back. “We are the safety valve. No matter how many PRUs the LEAs open – and the Ridings episode is just the tip of the iceberg – they will fill them and still end up wondering what to do with our sort of kids. They’ll have to send them further afield. Northumberland is looking at schools in the Lake District. Authorities are now panicking about our closure.”
DRAWING THE NATIONAL PICTURE
Despite all the publicity now surrounding disaffected pupils there has been no national survey in the past 20 years on the provision for pupils with emotional and behavioural difficulties.
However, the trustees of Shotton Hall, a pioneer EBD school which closed two years ago, have funded research by the University of Birming-ham’s school of education.
Researchers found that from 1987 to March this year, the number of approved independent schools fell by half, from 76 to 35, while the number of local authority EBD schools fell by about 15 per cent. In the first three months of the research alone, seven such schools closed. Head of research John Visser says although some “dross” has gone, “we have lost some very good schools in the past five years”.
The school of education runs the only EBD training course in the country and says it is turning teachers away who want to qualify – at a time when need is greater than ever.
The average annual cost per pupil of an EBD residential school is Pounds 25,000 to Pounds 30,000. Although many of those inspected by OFSTED are classed as failing or needing special measures, John Visser believes the inspectors apply the criteria too rigidly. “If you have had children who have been chucked out of other EBD schools, some of whom have already served custodial sentences and you are keeping them on site, in class and getting them interested in life, death and the universe, you might not be following key stage 3 of the national curriculum to the letter, but you will be achieving a great deal.
“I support the need for residential EBD provision but there has been no research into what is good or effective. That is what I am engaged in.”
These figures are taken from an article by John Visser and Ted Cole for the next issue of the Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties journal entitled : “An Overview of English Special School Provision for Children with Emotional and Behaviour Difficulties.” Contact Alan Rimmer on 01622 843104
www.tes.com/article.aspx?storycode=18233
Same Dr Toman
TEACHER IN ‘BARE BOTTOM’ PICTURE SCANDAL RESIGNS; Dad Claims Staff Took Snaps of Child’s Behind
July 4, 2009
A HEADTEACHER has resigned amid an investigation into practices at his school where it is alleged he allowed staff to photograph a child’s bare bottom.
Dr Michael Toman, head of Ysgol Plas Brondyffryn in Denbigh for the past 10 years, has been on restricted duties for the last 10 months pending the probe.
He announced his resignation last night after being removed from his job along with the school’s child protection coordinator in September.
It comes after the father of a severely autistic child claimed staff kept an 18-month “neglect diary” on his child, who cannot speak, and took photographs of the child’s bare bottom.
He alleged employees at the regional centre of excellence for children with autistic spectrum disorders took the photos without parental consent, and without informing social services.
An independent inquiry was launched by the education authority and bosses at Denbighshire County Council but a report into their findings has been heavily delayed.
At the time, police also confirmed they were investigating a string of staff e-mails raising child protection concerns at the school.
Dr Toman will leave his position at the end of August to “pursue new challenges”, the council said yesterday.
It is not yet known when the report will be completed but the father of the child at the centre of the investigation said he was told it could be a matter of weeks.
Last night, a Denbighshire County Council spokesman said: “Dr Toman had been placed on restricted duties whilst complaints relating to alleged breaches of procedure were investigated. …
www.questia.com/article/1G1-202982049/teacher-in-bare-bottom-picture-scandal-resigns
POLICE and social services officers have confirmed that they are investigating child protection concerns at a North Wales school for children with autism.
Officers were called in to investigate emails from a concerned member of staff at Ysgol Plas Brondyffryn in Denbigh late last week.
The move comes after a series of controversies concerning the school, widely regarded as a regional centre of excellence for children with autism spectrum disorders.
Six weeks ago the school’s headteacher Michael Toman was suspended from duties amid a local educational authority (LEA) inquiry into a complaint made by a pupil’s parents.
Two weeks later other parents of children at the school staged a protest at county hall in Ruthin.
Two days later the LEA temporarily replaced Dr Toman with acting headteacher Richard Williams.
Then it was revealed that a 34-page inspection report by the Care Standards Social Inspectorate for Wales (CSSIW) had identified 21 shortfalls in meeting national minimum standards of care in the residential section of Ysgol Plas Brondyffryn.
Now, a member of staff at the school has emailed the Evening Leader claiming they have been threatened with the sack if they speak out about the school’s management.
“Everyone is too scared to speak out.” said one female worker at the school.
She said morale was “very low” and added: “There are some very good dedicated staff at the school who have received no support in their work with what can be very challenging children.”
Last night a North Wales Police spokesman said: “We can confirm that e-mail correspondence relating to child protection concerns at Ysgol Brondyffryn are currently the subject of joint investigation by Denbighshire Social Services and the Police.”
www.careappointments.co.uk/care-news/wales/item/4963-Police%20Probe%20Child%20Protection%20Concerns%20At%20A%20North%20Wales%20Autism%20School
“Dr Toman joined the school in 1997 and he has since been instrumental in leading a team that transformed the school from being a special school into a modern, regional centre for autistic students.”
www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/inquiry-denbigh-headteacher-resigns-2782492
Last year, a group of parents held a protest over claims that concerns over standards were not being addressed.
A report by the Care Standards Inspectorate identified 14 instances where the school was failing to meet the minimum standards in 2006.
Parents claimed that by 2007 none of the failures had been acted on and there were a further seven instances of the failure to meet minimum standards.
The claims led to some parents of autistic pupils at the school staging a demonstration outside Denbighshire council offices in Ruthin.
Education officials have now confirmed that Dr Toman will officially retire from his post at the end of August.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8132580.stm
In the meantime, Dr Toman has been replaced by Richard Williams, deputy headteacher at St Christopher’s School in Wrexham, pending the outcome of the investigation, expected on October 10.
North Wales Police are aware of the inquiry but are not investigating, a force spokeswoman confirmed.
www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/head-let-staff-take-pupils-2807555
Jane Gregg and Brian Roycroft – directors
The Community Foundation
The different funds that we hold at the Community Foundation with a sample of case studies:
Greggs
Charity and Trust Funds – Designated – Unrestricted (UNR)
Contributes to Vital Funds
Registered Charity Number: 700510. Limited Company Number 2273708
Brian Roycroft
Individual and Family Philanthropy – Field Interest – Panel Advised (PA)
To help young people who have been in local authority care and are now entering adult life, to achieve their aspirations.
Mike Worthington OBE friend of Brian Roycroft
https://issuu.com/communityfoundation/docs/community_foundation_year_book_2013
GREGG, Jane Resigned
Correspondence address
Tweed Cottage, Dryburgh, Melrose, TD6 0TQ
Role
Director
Date of birth
September 1948
Appointed before
30 November 1991
Resigned on
13 September 1993
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(Patron)
PERCY, Ralph, 12th Duke Of Northumberland Dl, Mrics Resigned
Correspondence address
Alnwick Castle, Alnwick, Northumberland, NE66 1NQ
Role
Director
Date of birth
November 1956
Appointed on
20 December 1994
Resigned on
25 October 2001
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ROYCROFT, Eric Resigned
Correspondence address
36 St Georges Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, NE2 2SY
Role
Director
Date of birth
October 1933
Appointed on
6 October 1994
Resigned on
24 May 2002
Nationality
British
Occupation
Retired
ROYCROFT, Eric Resigned
Correspondence address
36 St Georges Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, NE2 2SY
Role
Director
Date of birth
October 1933
Resigned on
13 September 1993
Nationality
British
Occupation
Director Of Social Services
beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02273708/officers?page=2
Gregg stood trial in 1997 and was acquitted of abusing one of those three, the court heard.
The other two complainants came forward following publicity (news reports of that trial have been removed from the internet) about that trial but it was decided those allegations should not proceed to trial.
When Gregg faced fresh allegations in 2012, he told police that similarities between the stories put forward by the nine were due to them reading details about the trial in 1997.
Mr Greaney said: ‘He was asserting that those allegations with which you are concerned were copycat allegations.’
He said there was evidence that Gregg ‘finds young boys attractive’ and had a propensity to commit sexual abuse.
Gregg was said to have abused a boy in a school swimming bath, another while letting him drive his car while the boy had hold of the steering wheel.
Mr Greaney said: ‘The overall picture is now of complainants from different backgrounds, across many years, indeed decades, and across many aspects of the defendant’s life, but all making similar allegations against Colin Gregg, namely he has a strong determination to sexually abuse little boys when he gets the chance.’
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3540000/Married-son-man-founded-Greggs-accused-molesting-young-children-strong-determination-sexually-abuse-little-boys.html
1967, Colin Gregg (age 26) was drawn into the family business.1968: Gregg returned to Bakery business and got married.
1969:Gregg returned to teaching, taking a job at St Aloysius, after realising “business wasn’t really for me”
1969 – Feversham School opens just before NAMH adopted the name MIND
1970 Paedophile Peter Righton – Founding member of PIE, advised Home Office on reforms to children’s care home for a report that detailed how new homes should be controlled by local government.Righton gave “considerable assistance” to the governmental report, which credited him as an academic who helped to carve out plans for the training of care home workers.
As part of his research, he would travel to numerous residential centres across the UK.
“He [would] go and interview, in approved schools, individual boys and he certainly went to speak to the heads of homes,” the retired source said.
Righton had allegedly admitted taking “boys out”
1970: Neville Husband moves to Medomsley.
1970 – Gregg returned to working with children but continued to work for the bakery during the holidays and remained a board member.
1971 – he became a social worker, then head of Talbot House (year?), a school for what he termed delinquent children, the court heard.
During the early 1970s Gregg was a children’s officer with Newcastle’s social services department, before later becoming a teacher.
1973 Princess Alexandra patron of NAMH
1974 Talbot House established – maintained special school
Talbot House caters for children with mild to severe behaviour problems and a range of other childhood disorders. Attached to the school, but separate from it is an independent children’s home run by the Talbot Trust. Some children from the home do attend Talbot House but others attend local schools. Talbot House is not a residential school.
media.wix.com/ugd/5eedb5_cceb20f295de4594b0bbcdca7452a2d7.pdf
1975 MIND: Peter Righton / Tony Smythe
In October 1975, Righton became chair of a working group for the mental health association MIND, with the assistance of the King’s Fund Centre; this led to the publication of Assessment of Children and Their Families: A Report Produced by a MIND Working Party Under the Chairmanship of P. Righton (London; MIND, 1975).
1976 NAMH became a registered housing association
November 1976 there was a scandal in Newcastle involving a care worker called Hugh Bostock who had abused 55 boys.
1977, 19 September – members of P.I.E. first open meeting in London at the Conway hall in Red Lion square.
1977 Lady Constance Roth JP, Warnock Committee, wife of Sir Martin Roth (McGill University) is governor of Feversham until 1977. (In Newcastle between 1956 and 1977, Martin Roth built a world-class academic department with a wide-ranging research programme which included studies of the psychiatric disorders of old age, mood disorders, and child psychiatry)
1977 – 1984 – Durham County – Medomsley Detention centre – Nevile Husband part of large paedophile ring is neiled in 2003: for eight years for attacks between 1977 and 1984.
1978 Sir Martin Roth Chairman of MIND conference
1978 Brown began working at Feversham
Between 1978 and 1996, when the school closed, Brown launched sex attacks against a number of young boys.
1978 – SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS Report of the Committee of Enquiry into the Education of Handicapped Children and Young People chaired by Mrs H.M. Warnock
1978- Lady Constance Roth JP member of the Warnock committee
Newcastle City Council.
In 1979, Righton sat on a steering committee to establish a course for training staff to work with disturbed young people, together with John Rea Price, director of Islington Social Services, 1972-92, subsequently the Director of the National Children’s Bureau.
sponsored by Gatsby Trust an offshoot of the Sainsbury Foundation
Righton would likely have been involved officially with Feversham school for disturbed children?
1983 – Members of staff at Feversham School blew the whistle on the two child abusers
1983: Former Feversham teacher David Allnutt resigns in disgust over the way pupils’ allegations of abuse at the school are dismissed.
1983 – The first ever Greggs sponsored Childrens Cancer Run at Gosforth Racecourse
Gregg was at King’s College when he launched the Greggs Children’s Cancer Run
1985 – King’s College – Check given to Save the Children rep
March 1985 visit to Medomsley by Leon Brittan
June 1985 Report (marked for immediate destruction) into abuse and cruelty at Feversham School
1986 – Duncan, who worked as a social worker at the Dr Barnardo’s home at Shotley Park moved to Feversham
1987 – Medomsley closed
1987: Former social worker Ian Merry blows the whistle on suspected child abuse, triggering an investigation by the charity Mind.
Whistleblower Ian contacted Feversham’s chair of governors and the mental health charity Mind. The school’s custodian trustee launched an internal inquiry into the allegations. I was interviewed for two days at Mind’s regional headquarters. I named the men and said I had strong suspicions they were abusing children. Those in charge of the inquiry decided not to act
May 1987: Jimmy Savile’s visits to children’s cancer ward Newcastle Royal Victoria Infirmary – Nurse tells of Savile’s visits:
“He appeared to be in Newcastle for the Great North Run but for whatever reason he was able to visit the RVI.”
He also claimed Savile was formally invited into the building.”The alleged incident in Newcastle is thought to have taken place in the early 1990’s ? when Savile arrived at the hospital unannounced around the time of the Great North Run, which he regularly took part in.”
Savile regularly took part in the run
Jimmy Savile had family in Marsden a few miles down the coast.
– Marsden is the finishing line for the Great North Run, the RVI in newcastle is the start line. The RVI is one of the hospitals investigated re Savile.
1987 – The Gregg Charitable Trust was established as a family charity to support local hardship. The charity was given gifts of cash
1988 – The Feversham inquiry concludes and a report states there is “nothing to support allegations of indecency”. Pervert John Leslie Duncan, known as Les, keeps his job as a senior residential worker.
1989 – King’s College – Letter from Parents’ Assoc to Colin Gregg
1990 – Gregg left the then private Kings School to become the full-time administrator of the Yellow Brick Road Fund.
1990: Nevile Husband retires from the prison service and receives an Imperial Service medal for serving with “diligence and fidelity”.
Before 1991 -2001 Director at Greggs
1991 – 1996 THE CHILDRENS’ FOUNDATION LIMITED (02528291)
1993 – 1994 THE CHILDRENS’ FOUNDATION TRADING LIMITED (02591794)
1993 New Tyneside Orchestra – compere Colin Gregg / conductor Stephen Pettitt
The NTO has also provided musicians for a number of more diverse events including serenading runners at the finish line of the Great North Run in 2006.
1993 – Greggs – a large grant of £15,000 was awarded to Northumberland Wildlife Trust.
1994 – Greggs Trust establishes the Hardship Fund, with the collaboration of local trusts to support families and individuals in significant need in the North East.
1990 -1994 Serial killer’ Steven Grieveson murdered four teenage boys in a series of killings – has links to Cumbria and to Sunderland
1994 – Christopher Lillie and Dawn Reed, who worked at Newcastle Shieldfield Nursery, were accused of sexual offences, but the charges were dropped at the direction of a judge at Newcastle Crown Court
July 1994 – Jeremy Beecham , founding member of Common Purpose (since 1989) – was the leading Labour figure in local government at the time of the abuse scandal…was found collapsed in his car with a suspected overdose a week before Christopher Lillie went on trial to face abuse charges
Sir Jeremy was both leader of Newcastle City Council, which was responsible for running the nursery, and a partner in the legal firm representing Lillie, a fact the parents of the abused children were unhappy about.
He still is a partner in Henderson, Beecham & Peacock, a major Newcastle solicitors’ practice and at the time was also chairman of the Association of Metropolitan Authorities.
Mid 1990s Gregg left the the Yellow Brick Road Fund and later joined the Trinity Centre, on Gosforth’s High Street – home to the first Greggs bakery – as its chairman.
1996 -2000 – Gregg Director Talbot House Trust
Appointed on 15 November 1996
Resigned on 31 March 2000
Michael Toman Head teacher with pupils at Feversham school in Newcastle
July 1996 – the last inspection of Feversham, by Newcastle City Council’s social services department
Dec 1996 – Feversham principal is Dr Michael Toman ( Gregg was director at Feversham when Dr Michael Toman was there)
Mar 1997 – Feversham closes
1997: Gregg stood trial in 1997 and was acquitted of abusing one of those three, the court heard. The other two complainants came forward after publicity about that case but it was decided those allegations should not proceed to trial.
1997 Dr Michael Toman joins Ysgol Plas Brondyffryn school for autistic children in Denbigh
November 22, 1997 national child pornography operation raid including Durham school
1997 – Greggs Trust as it has become known celebrates its ten year anniversary.
1997 – Brother Ian Gregg gets an OBE
Aug 1997 – Op Rose started and 1st trial from that was in 1998.
Op Rose started So Grgg was not directly Op Rose – but maybe what they were finding (and covering up) led to a bigger trawl? (via ww)
1999 – Greggs Breakfast Club is established
December 2001 : John Leslie Duncan is jailed for abusing his position of trust to prey on youngsters at Feversham.
2002 – Dr Lazaro, senior lecturer and consultant paediatrician at Newcastle Royal Victoria Infirmary and Newcastle University was criticised for her role in the investigation into” false” claims of abuse at a Newcastle nursery by Dawn Reed and Christopher Lillie.
The pair were accused in a Newcastle City Council report of systematic sex abuse of dozens of children at a Newcastle nursery. But Mr Justice Eady declared them innocent of all charges and condemned the report as a legal `shambles.’
...supplying children to a paedophile ring whose members had raped and abused their young victims, and used them in the making of child pornography.
…the local press had begun reporting the case of Jason Dabbs, a young student who had pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting children at another Newcastle nursery.
2003 Neville Husband was jailed for historical sexual abuse as a prison officer at Medomsley detention centre in County Durham
Police investigating sexual abuse at a Durham detention centre say they believe they have uncovered an organised paedophile ring operating in the 1970s and 80s with more than 500 potential victims…. a complex paedophile ring, with many more victims than previously thought.
2006 – Greggs raises £70,000 for BBC Children in Need Appeal in the first year of supporting the appeal
2006 – A team at Trinity Church, in Gosforth, Newcastle, have been planning the attractive community space (the Square) since the church had a pounds 3.25m refurbishment
…the team received a grant of pounds 100,000 from Newcastle City Council.
2007: The CPS decides it is “not in the public interest” to proceed with charges that Husband abused a boy at Deerbolt youth offenders’ institution after he left Medomsley and Frankland.
September 2008 Dr Michael Toman suspended, he resigns in Aug 2009
2008 – TRINITY CENTRE LIMITED (06510855) on Gosforth’s High Street opened – connected to the church
2008 – Northumbria Police deputy chief constable David Warcup replaces Lenny Harper in Jersey
2010: Husband dies.
December 2, 2011: Kevin Brown, known as Ken, of Inchberry Close, Benwell, Newcastle, is jailed for eight years for also abusing boys.
December 8, 2011: Newcastle North MP and Shadow Minister for Children and Young Families, Catherine McKinnell, joins the Chronicle in calling for an official inquiry.
December 14, 2011: Former Feversham teacher David Allnutt dies of a massive heart attack just weeks after his key evidence helps jail Kevin Brown.
2012 – Colin Gregg faced fresh allegations
2012: The Guardian reveals that Husband’s abuse was on a greater scale than previously thought. Police re-open the investigation after more victims come forward.
January 6, 2012: Mind boss Paul Farmer meets the mother of one of the victims for talks.
February 22, 2012: Mothers of Feversham victims form a pressure group.
April 27, 2012: Northumbria Police sets up an incident room to carry out a major investigation into allegations of abuse at the school.
2012 When Gregg faced fresh allegations in 2012, he told police that similarities between the stories put forward by the nine were due to them reading details about the trial in 1997.
2014: Durham police say they are investigating an organised paedophile ring operating from Medomsley with more than 500 potential victims.
2015 – Duke of York visits Newcastle to launch £2m Children’s Foundation campaign
2015: Lowell Goddard, chairman of the long running Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, announced that Feversham would not be included in the first phase of investigations. A former social worker who worked at Newcastle’s Feversham school today told of his anger that the horrors he witnessed there might never be made public.
Trent @RandolphTrent
Husband & Johnson were both FreeMasons, during the material times many police & other officers were also Masons possibly the same lodge! too
March 1994 when I first made complaints to police about the abuse going on at #Medomsley Told to go home & forget about it! I didnt I fought
I even had a Moderator of Husband’s 2 churches say “Don’t they ask for it by getting into trouble in the first place! I couldn’t believe it!
Medomsley – Police Incompetence or Corruption?
https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2017/06/07/medomsley-police-incompetence-or-corruption/
date unknown: Robert Atkinson – Newcastle teacher was arrested for sexually abusing a 13 year old student. He was fined £200. The headmaster and staff however continued to support him after the his guilt. Member level status in P.I.E
1984 Birthday Honours – Brian Roycroft
Eric Brian Roycroft – Director of Social Services, Newcastle upon Tyne Metropolitan Borough Council.
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Newcastle City Council, Brian Roycroft, and North Wales care homes
On February 16th 2000 under the headline Suffer the Little Children the Newcastle Journal provided the story of one of the victims in Sunderland mentioning that the NSPCC report had referred to a web of institutional abuse and reported that 32 staff had been involved.
The Sunderland Echo also published an editorial Two Decades of Horrific Abuse and an article on the movement of staff suspects between local authorities. The Newcastle Spotlight on Abuse article is important drawing attention to the role of the Director of Social Services Roycroft in relation to the 1976 Hugh Bostock Scandal and his alleged opposition to the proposal for a register of dismissed staff. Cathy Fox’s request for Hugh Bostock inquiry info to be published was refused.
On Feb 17th the Newcastle-based Journal published the story of one victim who contacted them among the 28 who were said to have been assaulted after being placed in Bryn Alyn by the City of Newcastle.
The Feb 17th complainant mentioned that Director of Social Services Brian Roycroft visited the home to open an extension. “It was almost laughable he was singing the praises of the place yet what was going on there was evil.”
Roycroft was Director of Social Services for Newcastle 1971- 1993and before then its Children’s officer, who also acted as Director of Education and Chief Executive for short periods, and was appointed a European Social Commissioner by Margaret Thatcher as well as having a controlling influence within the Association of Directors of Social Services and the advisors to the Association of Metropolitan local authorities.
He commented in what appeared to be a prepared statement “ It is fairly common place to send children with behavioural difficulties to homes around the country, here weren’t the facilities available in the North East. It is perfectly possible that some children from Newcastle and the North East did go to some of the homes in North Wales named in the Waterhouse report. I had 42,000 children in my care during my career and I cannot possible remember where they all went. It is also perfectly feasible that I did visit the Bryn Alyn Home “ It is noteworthy that although he left Newcastle a number of years before he knew the total number of children was over 42,000
“I would often visit homes where children from Newcastle were in care as would social service staff from the city” The article includes comments from the then current Director of Social Services for Newcastle.
In 1987, that is a year after the first complaints about the conduct of the owner of Bryn Alyn were made, Roycroft who was then President of the Association of Directors of Social Service recommended colleagues at the North East Region branch meeting the placement of children in care at Bryn Alyn, speaking warmly of the hospitality he had received. He rarely mentioned his national/internationally activities.
Roycroft also made a point of advising colleagues on another occasion that he sometimes invited children in care to his home.
It was then on morning of the 18th that the Journal posed the question Why were 69 of our Children sent to Bryn Alyn? The key sentence in the article (9) is the reference to a Labour MP Chris Ruane Vale of Clwyd (and still there) wanted Prime Minister Tony Blair to assure him that prominent people had not been left out.
On the 19th the Journal again asked the question Why did they keep sending children? The article refers to the 1988 devastating report of its Director on its Children’s Homes and which included Bryn Alyn.
Roycroft who died in 2002 during the libel action against the Council and the authors of the report on the Sheffield Nursery Scandal (the Chronicle settled out of court) was also the lead member of the team who investigated the conviction of the Calderdale Social Services Director in 1988 (when he was immediate past President of ADSS) for crimes against children in care and Calderdale director was reported to have links with Peter Righton)
In 1994 Roycroft was part of the part Inquiry into Oxenden House.
Child in Care – Volume 10 – Page 34
A spokesperson for Greggs, where Mr Gregg held a senior role for 10 years, said: “Colin Gregg has no involvement with Greggs Plc and it would therefore be wholly inappropriate for us to comment on this matter.”
Formerly a director at the baked goods giant established by his father John Gregg in the 1930s, Mr Gregg had previously held the lead role at Kings School in Tynemouth.
During his time there, he launched the Greggs Children’s Cancer Run, now in its 31st year, after pupil Chris Peacock was diagnosed with kidney cancer and given a 30% chance of survival.
Chris Peacock’s cancer was treated by Professor Alan Craft and this year (2013), as in the 20 previous years, he will be taking part in the Children’s Cancer Run.
Since its creation, the events has raised in excess of £5m for North of England Children’s Cancer Research (NECCR), at Newcastle.
He left the prestigious school in 1990 to become the full time administrator with the Yellow Brick Road Fund, a charity set up to raise millions for projects.
The charity later became Children’s Foundation, fundraising for what is now the Great North Children’s Hospital.
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Working with Newcastle University’s Dept of Child Health building the Road to Health – current director
Colin Gregg 1996 leaving yellow brick road aka Children’s Foundation charity # 1000013 |
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Working with Newcastle University’s Dept of Child Health building the Road to Health – current director
Colin Gregg 1996 leaving Yellow Brick Road aka Children’s Foundation charity # 1000013
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Leaving the post in the mid 1990s Mr Gregg, a father-of-three, who used to work as a children’s officer with Newcastle’s social services during the early 1970s, later joined the Trinity Centre along Gosforth’s High Street – home to the first Greggs bakery – as its chairman.
Opened in 2008 the centre, connected to the church, hosts around 100 activities a week for the community.
www.thejournal.co.uk/news/north-east-news/colin-gregg-arrested-over-child-4397786
New Square Shaping Up
THE final stages of a town square intended for a leafy Tyneside suburb have been put in place.
A team at Trinity Church, in Gosforth, Newcastle, have been planning the attractive community space since the church had a pounds 3.25m refurbishment in 2006.
But after gaining planning permission, the development was put on the back-burner as the popularity of the new Trinity Centre exceeded expectations.
Attention was turned to creating the half-paved and half-grassed town square, aimed at breathing life back into Gosforth High Street after the team received a grant of pounds 100,000 from Newcastle City Council.
At the time of the planning in 2009, the project was estimated to cost pounds 400,000. It is hoped the space will be used as place to sit, relax and chat, as well as for entertainment such as bands, markets and chess.
Colin Gregg, chairman of the Trinity Centre, said the aim of the square was to bring the local community together.
He said: “The overall aim is that the square will help bring people back on to the High Street and to eventually shop there so trade will pick up.
“Gosforth High Street used to be a thriving area. It was where the bakery Greggs opened its first store and it was a place where people came and talked.
“We want the square to be the heart of the community.”
Since the Trinity Centre reopened in 2008 it has exceeded expectations.
The church now hosts 100 activities a week and has around 2,500 people walking through its doors each week.
www.questia.com/read/1G1-265652147/new-square-shaping-up
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Sasha Wass QC, prosecutor in Rolf Harris trial, to lead island sex abuse inquiry
Sasha Wass QC, has been brought into to head an investigation into an alleged cover-up on St Helena and Ascension
20 November 2014
A prominent barrister who successfully prosecuted Rolf Harris will head an investigation into an alleged police and government conspiracy to cover up the widespread sexual exploitation of girls on a British overseas territory.
Sasha Wass QC, has been brought in after a review of child safety on St Helena and Ascension – two tiny and remote islands in the South Atlantic with a combined population of some 5,500 – revealed that a number of paedophiles had escaped prosecution amid claims of police incompetence and corruption.
Social workers said they raised concerns about a paedophile officer but were snubbed and told not to rock the boat and “enjoy the view” on St Helena, famous as the island prison of Napoleon.
FOI release: Sasha Wass QC
Sasha Wass QC and St Helena and Ascension Island.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/foi-release-sasha-wass-qc
Morecombe – Skipton – Thirsk – Scarborough
After the success of the first 2 rides we became more adventurous and designed a new coast to coast of our own. This was to give people the chance to complete other ways to cross the country on a bike. The route was designed by Les and went from Morecambe to Scarborough via Skipton and Thirsk.
The 3 day ride included more varied terrain and scenery over 200 miles and had lots of hills, off road tracks, fast road sections and included the first cityworks riders hill climb just for fun. 12 riders signed up for the trip through Settle, Skipton, Pately bridge, Ripon, Thirsk, Thornton le dale, and Scarborough.
This ride was also on a large scale as we had a bus, a 7 ton wagon and 3 outriders from the TA. The back up was great and the route well organised in advance. We also stayed in good quality hotels on the way and provided pleanty of pub stops for a beer or two.
This ride was in aid of three charities: –
- The Childrens cancer research fund at the R.V.I. Newcastle
- The Yellow Brick road appeal Newcastle
- The Evening Chronicle Sunshine fund Newcastle.
We enlisted the help of the Mayor of Morecambe to start the ride and the mayor of Scarborough to meet us at the end.
£3,250 was raised for our chosen charities with the cheque presentation at the Civic centre again with our charity representatives.
The group had a glittering career which saw them tour the country with a host of household names.
They spent six weeks touring with a young Cliff Richard and although Angela has fond memories of the time she missed out on the chance to have her picture taken with the future superstar – she was giving birth to Martyn. The group’s “fourth member” Sylvia Scarill filled in for her.
She said: “He was very polite and pleasant, but he didn’t socialise much. Sometimes he would rehearse songs with the band in the bus, but most of the time he travelled by car with his own driver.”
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/spice-girls-60s-anniversary-pledge-9352818
Children’s Foundation Chief Executive Peregrine Solly
(right) Peregrine Solly (BAE)
strider
June 2014
The importance of timelines – and the depth of the rabbit hole
Newcastle City Council, Brian Roycroft, and North Wales care homes
Written by a former social work professional who wishes to remain anonymous.
Local publicity about the connection between children and young people in the care and protection of Newcastle City Council and Bryn Alyn only became public in the 2000 with the publication of the Waterhouse Report following the prosecution of a number of individuals for crimes of physical and sexual violence in residential care in Wales
The Mail on Sunday Feb 13th 2000 reported that the £13 million inquiry stopped short of concluding that the abuse was orchestrated by a ring of paedophiles who helped each other to secure top jobs in in the Welsh Care system and which were said to include policemen, public servants and businessmen- this included a Welsh Office Inspector of Homes who was sentenced to 14 years.
12 former children in care were known to have committed suicide because of their experiences.
Locally the first reference to the Waterhouse Inquiry revelations occurred on Feb 15th when the Sunderland Echo commented on the report noting that two weeks beforehand Sunderland’s “longest running child abuse Inquiry collapsed.” The Echo paper appears to be making the point that the passage of time did not appear to have affected the successful prosecution in Wales and other situations.
The point made by the Sunderland Echo back in 2000 has been strengthened for on April 29th 2013, that is another decade after the third Witherwack trial ended, the Director General of the National Crime Agency issued a Public report on the progress of Operation Pallial covering 140 complainants reporting offences in 18 establishments in North Wales 1963-1992 against 84 named individuals. Operation Pallial continues. The 18 page progress report makes reference to the establishment of a review of the working of the Waterhouse Inquiry conducted for the Ministry of Justice by Lady Justice Macur DBE and which published an Issues Paper on January 8th 2013 which included a call of information.
In October 2013 Cathy Fox used an FOI request to ask the Ministry of Justice when the Macur report would be published. Further requests were made in December and May of this year. No date has been fixed.
On February 16th 2000 under the headline Suffer the Little Children the Newcastle Journal provided the story of one of the victims in Sunderland mentioning that the NSPCC report had referred to a web of institutional abuse and reported that 32 staff had been involved.
The Journal article also refers to the Pin Down regime in Staffordshire, to an investigation in Northumberland and the 300 complaints which has arisen to that date as part of Operation Rose.
On February 16th, the Journal also published an editorial covering the Waterhouse Inquiry and the 1998 Utting report
The Sunderland Echo also published an editorial Two Decades of Horrific Abuse and an article on the movement of staff suspects between local authorities. The Newcastle Spotlight on Abuse article is important drawing attention to the role of the Director of Social Services Roycroft in relation to the 1976 Hugh Bostock Scandal and his alleged opposition to the proposal for a register of dismissed staff. Cathy Fox’s request for Hugh Bostock inquiry info to be published was refused.
On Feb 17th the Newcastle-based Journal published the story of one victim who contacted them among the 28 who were said to have been assaulted after being placed in Bryn Alyn by the City of Newcastle.
NB A subsequent report indicated that only a small number had approached Newcastle Police with complaints.
The Feb 17th complainant mentioned that Director of Social Services Brian Roycroft visited the home to open an extension. “It was almost laughable he was singing the praises of the place yet what was going on there was evil.”
Roycroft was Director of Social Services for Newcastle 1971- 1993 and before then its Children’s officer, who also acted as Director of Education and Chief Executive for short periods, and was appointed a European Social Commissioner by Margaret Thatcher as well as having a controlling influence within the Association of Directors of Social Services and the advisors to the Association of Metropolitan local authorities.
He commented in what appeared to be a prepared statement “ It is fairly common place to send children with behavioural difficulties to homes around the country, here weren’t the facilities available in the North East. It is perfectly possible that some children from Newcastle and the North East did go to some of the homes in North Wales named in the Waterhouse report. I had 42,000 children in my care during my career and I cannot possible remember where they all went. It is also perfectly feasible that I did visit the Bryn Alyn Home “ It is noteworthy that although he left Newcastle a number of years before he knew the total number of children was over 42,000
“I would often visit homes where children from Newcastle were in care as would social service staff from the city” The article includes comments from the then current Director of Social Services for Newcastle.
In 1987, that is a year after the first complaints about the conduct of the owner of Bryn Alyn were made, Roycroft who was then President of the Association of Directors of Social Service recommended colleagues at the North East Region branch meeting the placement of children in care at Bryn Alyn, speaking warmly of the hospitality he had received. He rarely mentioned his national/internationally activities.
Roycroft also made a point of advising colleagues on another occasion that he sometimes invited children in care to his home.
It was then on morning of the 18th that the Journal posed the question Why were 69 of our Children sent to Bryn Alyn? The key sentence in the article (9) is the reference to a Labour MP Chris Ruane Vale of Clwyd (and still there) wanted Prime Minister Tony Blair to assure him that prominent people had not been left out.
Also regarded of significance is the accompanying piece about one former young man how he had been threatened at gun point by a staff member before insisting on sex. Was their proper investigations of residents reported missing from the home who were never found by their placing local authorities? The Editorial demanded the facts and the inquiry report to be published.
The importance of establishing a timeline database to include the various police investigations and other inquiries is reinforced by the Daily Mail front page headline article on the same morning – Even Worse- suggesting the potential of 11,000 victims based on the Lambeth-centred inquiry Operation Middleton and which also referred to Operation Care Merseyside and to an operation in Birmingham. The Newcastle Chronicle that evening asked for one victim placed at Bryn Alyn by North Tyneside – Why did no one listen to me?
On the 19th the Journal again asked the question Why did they keep sending children? The article refers to the 1988 devastating report of its Director on its Children’s Homes and which included Bryn Alyn.
The 19th saw the Journal report the story of Michelle Atkinson in relation to a Newcastle residential care home. On the same date the Journal reported that David Brushett, the Welsh Office Children’s Inspector who had worked at the former Approved School, Aycliffe County Durham joint secure remand centre and community home with education on the premises from 1967 to 1974 when he had become deputy Headmaster at the school part of the establishment.
The Chronicle then disclosed on February 25th that Peter Howarth who was convicted and sentenced to ten years for crimes at the notorious Bryn Estyn Establishment had worked at the former Axwell Park (renamed Clavering House) Newcastle establishment. The then current Director of Social Services called for any victims to come forward in a Journal article on the 26th.
In 1968 following the conviction of Mary Bell aged 11 years for the murder of two boys, Roycroft then Children’s Officer Newcastle became personally involved with her welfare and was widely praised by the author of two books on the murders and the life of Mary as “one of the finest social workers in the country” and referred to “his passion for “social justice.” quoted in the Guardian Obituary.
As already mentioned in 1976 Roycroft was at the centre of concern about the conviction of Newcastle Residential Home officer Hugh Bostock. The Council has refused to publish its internal report via a Cathy Fox FOI request.
Roycroft who died in 2002 during the libel action against the Council and the authors of the report on the Shielfield Nursery Scandal (the Chronicle settled out of court) was also the lead member of the team who investigated the conviction of the Calderdale Social Services Director in 1988 (when he was immediate past President of ADSS) for crimes against children in care and Calderdale director was reported to have links with Peter Righton)
In 1994 Roycroft was part of the part Inquiry into Oxenden House. A Cathy Fox FOI request for a copy of the report to be published has been refused.
Aycliffe Shool in Co Durham
Aycliffe’s director, Masud Hoghughi
TONY McCAFFREY
Michael Whyte went to Durham in 1977 to make Aycliffe, his acclaimed ITV documentary, the cameras watched Mr McCaffrey
www.ukcolumn.org/oldforums/index.php?p=/discussion/8212/child-abuse-timeline
Aycliffe Young People’s Center
Aycliffe Young People’s Center, Darlington, Stockton on Tees
Former County Durham house master cleared of sex abuse
A former County Durham school house master has been cleared of sexual abuse charges after a judge concluded police handling the case acted improperly.
Rod Ryall, 68, of Wheatley Drive, Mirfield, West Yorkshire, had denied 10 counts of indecent assault on three children in the 1960s and 1970s.
The judge hearing the case directed jurors to return not guilty verdicts amid criticism of Durham Police.
BBC News 24/09/10
School master ‘carried out string of sex attacks’
An approved school housemaster who became a scout leader and council director of social services carried out a string of sex attacks on vulnerable boys over a period of years, a court heard today.
Rod Ryall, 68, appeared at Teesside Crown Court charged with 10 counts of indecent assault on three alleged victims during the 1960s and 1970s.
In 1988 he pleaded guilty to four counts of indecent assault, two counts of gross indecency and one of buggery with boys aged 14 to 17, the jury was told.
Ryall studied physics at Oxford University before taking a PhD in criminology at Cambridge and became a housemaster at Newton Aycliffe Approved School, County Durham, in the mid 1960s.
The prosecution alleges he sexually abused two pupils during his time at the school, where boys who had committed criminal offences were housed and educated.
The Independent 14/09/10
Former house master in sex assault inquiry
AN ex-social services chief has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting youngsters at a North-East children’s centre that has housed some of the UK’s most notorious juvenile criminals.
Rod Ryall, 67, was a live-in house master at Aycliffe Approved School, off the A167, Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, in the Sixties.
He was arrested last week and an investigation into the school, now known as Aycliffe Secure Services, is under way.
The Northern Echo 06/06/09
15 years prison for sex shame politician
A FORMER North-East aide of Prime Minister Tony Blair has been jailed for 15 years for an “appalling” string of sex offences against teenage boys.
Martyn Locklin, 41, of Ladybower, Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, was found guilty by the jury of eight men and four women at Teesside Crown Court yesterday.
Locklin, a leading Labour party activist in Sedgefield, stood impassively in the dock as the jury delivered guilty verdicts on eight charges, including rape.
Last night, the Labour Party said Locklin, who has shown Mr Blair around the area on several occasions, had no special relationship with the Prime Minister.
Locklin’s barrister, Tim Roberts, said that he would immediately appeal against the conviction. “Martyn Locklin maintains that he is completely innocent of the alleged offences,” he said.
“No conviction based upon the word of self-confessed criminals and perjurers can possibly be regarded as safe.
“Martyn Locklin would like to thank the Newton Aycliffe community for the support which they have afforded his family.”
The former leader of Great Aycliffe Town Council was convicted of two indecent assaults against one teenager; one serious sexual offence, two counts of rape and one of indecent assault against a second youngster; and two counts of indecent assault against a third boy. All the offences took place between 1988 and 1996.
The jury had earlier been directed to deliver a not guilty verdict on one charge of indecent assault on the first boy.
During the three-week trial, the court heard that Locklin, a house parent at Aycliffe Young People’s Centre, had breached his position of trust and abused one teenage resident there, visiting him in his room at night on more than 30 occasions.
A second boy was systematically raped and sexually abused at weekends in Locklin’s home for more than two years, while his partner Denise Anderson and stepsons slept upstairs, the jury heard.
All three members of the family told the court it was “not possible” for the attacks to have happened, and said Locklin was a good father .
The third boy said he, too, had been sexually abused in Locklin’s home over a two-month period. All three said they had been plied with drink and cannabis and were given gifts such as tobacco, clothes and cash to buy their silence.
Judge Peter Fox QC described the abuse as “appalling” and said: “This reflects a gross breach of trust on your part in respect of young boys in their mid-teens, two of whom you owed a particular duty of trust.”
The judge said Locklin had groomed and seduced the boys and added: “The damage, and over such a prolonged period in such a devastating way can hardly be estimated.”
Locklin was sentenced to ten years concurrent for the assault of the first two boys and five years consecutive for the repeated abuse of the third.
The judge placed Locklin on the sex offenders register for life and said: “You will be watched for the remainder of your days. You need to be.”
John Burton, Tony Blair’s agent, said Martyn Locklin had been a hard working councillor. He added: “Obviously our sympathies at this time have got to be with the families and with the victims themselves.”
Bob Fleming, leader of Great Aycliffe Town Council, said: “He’s been found guilty of horrendous crimes and as a result of that he deserves to go to prison for a long time.
“This will come as a shock to many people because he had many friends who stood by him through thick and thin .”
* Detectives last night said they believed there could be more victims of Locklin who were “too ashamed or frightened” to come forward. Anyone with information should contact Newton Aycliffe police on (01325) 314401.
Darlington & Stockton Times 04/07/01
Youth was raped by Tony Blair’s aide, court told
A YOUNGSTER claimed to have been raped once a month for two years by a former aide to Prime Minister Tony Blair, a court heard yesterday.
The young man, who is serving life imprisonment for murder, was giving evidence in the trial of Martyn Locklin, a senior Labour councillor in Mr Blair’s Sedgefield constituency, at Teesside Crown Court.
Mr Locklin, 41, of Ladybower, Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, faces three counts of indecent assault against one boy, and two counts of indecent assault against another.
He also faces a charge involving a serious sexual assault, two counts of rape and one of indecent assault against a third boy.
The Sedgefield borough and Great Aycliffe town councillor denies all the charges, which were alleged to have taken place between 1988 and 1996.
Yesterday, the court heard from former employees of Aycliffe Young People’s Centre, where Mr Locklin was employed during the late 1980s and early 1990s, and where one alleged victim claimed to have been sexually assaulted.
Two former night watchmen who worked with Mr Locklin claimed the councillor had smoked cannabis while caring for youngsters at the centre.
And one alleged victim told the court he was raped and sexually assaulted by Mr Locklin weekly for two years while he was aged between 15 and 17.
He said Mr Locklin would give him alcohol and cannabis before sexually assaulting him.
Now in his 20s, he said: “I felt helpless, ashamed and frightened.”
The man, serving a life sentence for murder, said the abuse ended when he pulled a knife on the councillor and ran off.
Tim Roberts, for Mr Locklin, put it to the man that he had lied to a jury during his murder trial and committed perjury, which the man admitted.
Before he had met Mr Locklin, he had been involved in sexual behaviour with a 63-year-old man.
Earlier, the court heard how Mr Locklin was a “strong and manipulative character”.
After leaving the centre, Mr Locklin immersed himself in local politics and by the time he was charged in May he was leader of Great Aycliffe Town Council.
The prosecution claims he abused his position of trust while working as a care worker at the home.
The trial continues.
Darlington & Stockton Times 23/06/01
Independent on Sunday 07/03/93
Independent 25/08/93
Independent 14/12/92
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Leon Brittan – known as a paedophile throughout Barnes & Fleet Street since early 1980s. #ElmGuestHouse #Aycliffe
Aycliffe Centre for Children, Prince Andrew’s visit
Prince Andrew shakes hands with Dr Masud Hoghughi, with Councillor J T Thompson (centre). Darlington & Stockton Times photograph. 1984.
Prince Andrew
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Fry’s lurid details of the sex act with the young man and what he would or would not perform was too much for some guests. ‘Fry’s speech was deeply distasteful
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2618339/EPHRAIM-HARDCASTLE-Stephen-Frys-lurid-speech-liberal-minded-guests-dinner-event.html
Stephen Fry, Alastair Campbell and Lord Melvyn Bragg – Savile
Mental health charity Mind photocall
http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/paul-farmer-mind-apologises-report-pro-paedophile-leader-spoke-1975-event/communications/article/1305020
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