NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
BY RICHARD VERNALLS – 23 MAY 2015
An 89-year-old former teacher and Scout leader has been jailed for seven years for “awful” abuse of two of his pupils.
Peter Farrands, also a former church minister, told one of his victims the young boy was his “special lad” as he abused him in a classroom at the Folville Junior School in Leicester during the 1980s.
His other young victim was abused as he stood at the front of the class and read a book, but Farrands was careful to ensure the other pupils could not see his assault.
Sentencing a frail-looking Farrands, Judge Simon Hammond said that the attacks were “awful, awful offences” on vulnerable youngsters which had left the victims “tormented” into adulthood.
The judge was “moved” by the witness testimony of one of the men for whom the effect of abuse “has been frankly devastating”, he added. The other youngster was Robert Gibb, who said after sentencing at Leicester Crown Court: “There’s no forgiveness.”
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