SCOTLAND
Daily Record
BY DAVE FINLAY
MICHAEL Murphy, 82, was known as Brother Benedict or Brother Ben to children at St Joseph’s List D School in Tranent where he perpetrated indecency and violence.
A CATHOLIC monk carried out a catalogue of brutality and degrading abuse against pupils at a residential school during “a regime of fear”.
Michael Murphy was known as Brother Benedict or Brother Ben to children in his care at St Joseph’s List D School in Tranent, in East Lothian, where he perpetrated indecency and violence against youngsters.
Irish-born Murphy, 82, denied a string of charges against him during his trial at the High Court in Edinburgh claiming: “I should not be here in this court at all.”
But a jury convicted him of 15 charges of assault and indecent assault on Thursday involving eight boys spanning the decade up to 1981.
Murphy was acquitted of a further two charges.
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