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The Comet
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A WRIT has been issued against the organisation behind a former boys' home in Shefford by a former resident.
The man alleges that he was subjected to sexual, physical and emotional abuse while a pupil at the St Francis Boys' Home in the 1950s and 60s.
This is the latest in a number of allegations of abuse to hit the boys' home, which closed in the 1970s.
The writ has been filed in Manchester County Court by solicitors representing a 56-year-old man who now lives overseas.
He was a pupil of the home between 1956 and 1963 and is claiming up to £50,000 for "assault and for personal injuries and loss and damage, which said injuries loss and damage were occasioned by reason of the negligence and/or breach of statutory duty of the defendants".