Detectives to re-open 1980s yachting chartiy investigation
A
report in today’s Daily Mirror claims that detectives are to re-open an
investigation into claims of child sexual abuse at a sailing charity in the
1980s.
The
development comes in the light of on-going allegations against the TV
personality, Sir Jimmy Savile.
The
Mirror says that, like Savile, another BBC presenter was accused in the
1980s of using a charity as a cover to abuse vulnerable children – but this
time a sailing charity.
It
reports that the mystery BBC presenter was investigated at the time after police became
aware of allegations he was abusing boys during sailing trips.
No
charges were ever brought against the star – for reasons that remain unclear.
A child
protection source is said to have told the Mirror: ‘The charity was used as a
way of taking indecent pictures of the boys and there was also physical abuse
occurring.’
One
man was later convicted of abusing boys during the yachting outings and jailed for
four years in the early 1990s, the paper reports.
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