Edinburgh Academy has acknowledged that serial sexual abuse was widespread.
A Scots private school where BBC presenter Nick Campbell attended has apologised for “brutal and unrestrained” historic abuse.
Corporal punishment was banned in Scottish private schools in 2000, but the hearing was told “disproportionate sadistic violence” was rife in the school in the 1970s and a “culture of fear” prevailed – with one former teacher, Iain Wares, described by a lawyer for survivors as “one of the most prolific abusers in Scottish criminal history”.
Mr McLean said: “Other schools did not operate like this – corporal punishment was a threat. This was a characteristic of Edinburgh Academy.” He said Dawson’s “unusual methods of punishment were celebrated when he retired”, and described Wares perpetrating “sadistic violence of a sexual nature”. Fettes College made an apology to pupils for allowing Wares to continue teaching after it considered sacking him in 1975, but was urged to allow him to continue to teach by a psychiatrist. Wares was dismissed in 1979 and returned to South Africa.
“Conduct was ‘hidden in plain sight’, with the perpetrators apparently getting gratification from that. Some boys who were groomed adopted the attitude that sexual abuse was preferable.
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