AUSTRALIA
Sky News
A royal commission has heard conflicting evidence about whether former Knox Grammar headmaster Ian Paterson groped a schoolgirl during a musical rehearsal at the school.
One witness AUE, a former student at the school who was in the Guys and Dolls musical with Lucy Perry in 1989, said he saw Ian Paterson, grope her.
He said the assault happened as Ms Perry, then known as Lucy Schaffler, walked off the stage.
‘As she completed her walk, when she turned around Dr Paterson hit her on the buttocks but I would not call it a pat, because his hand stayed there’, he said.
Brian Buggy, who was musical director at the school and who handled the orchestra in that production said he never saw it happen.
‘It would have been out of character for him and would have been, you know, the gossip around the school’, Mr Buggy, who is now musical director of the Sydney orchestra, said.
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