Four in Court Accused of Assaults at Former St Ninian’s School in Falkland

By Graeme Ogston
The Courier
July 4, 2014

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/fife/four-in-court-accused-of-assaults-at-former-st-ninian-s-school-in-falkland-1.454985

Four men have appeared in court accused of historical child abuse and assaults at a former Fife school.

The men, aged between 60 and 76, face a total of 11 charges allegedly committed at the former St Ninian’s School in Falkland in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Two other men, aged 71 and 61, are being sought by police after failing to appear at Dundee Sheriff Court on Thursday.

Edward Egan, Michael Murphy, Timothy Foxall and William Don appeared separately on petition before Sheriff Tom Hughes.

Egan, 76, of Wicker Lane, Altrincham, Greater Manchester, faces a total of six charges — two of assault, two of using lewd, indecent and libidinous practices and behaviour, one of indecent assault and one of sexual assault, all against boys at the school. Murphy, 74, of Orwell Place, Dunfermline, faced two charges of assault, while Foxall, 63, of Hexham, Northumberland, is charged with one assault on a boy by allegedly dragging him down two flights of stairs.

Don, 60, of Windygates Road, Leven, faces two charges of assault.

All four made no plea or declaration during the brief private hearings and were granted bail. The men appeared on a petition containing 11 charges allegedly committed between January 1979 and July 1983.

All but one of the charges are alleged to have taken place at the school.

The school, which closed in the early 1980s, was run by the Irish Christian Brothers.