UNITED KINGDOM
Altrincham Today
By David Prior 18th November 2015
A groundbreaking film about the sex abuse trial of a former Altrincham schoolteacher has won a Royal Television Society award.
The report was broadcast on Granada Reports on the day Alan Morris, a former chemistry teacher at St Ambrose College in Hale Barns, was jailed for nine years for decades of abuse.
And now the team behind it has been recognised with the prize for Best Regional Story at the Royal Television Society North West awards, held in Manchester on Saturday.
The idea for the story had originated from David Nolan, a former St Ambrose pupil and Morris victim who waived his right to give evidence at the trial in order to produce the behind-the-scenes film, which included unprecedented access to the police and victims involved in the trial – and even saw Nolan confront Morris outside Manchester Minshull Street Court.
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