UNITED KINGDOM
The Comet
10 October 2016 Layth Yousif
A former carer at a Shefford boys’ home physically or sexually abused 25 boys during the 1960s, a hearing at the Old Bailey has found today.
James McCann, 80, from Swaffham, Norfolk, was deemed unfit to stand trial relating to abuse at St Francis Boys’ Home – however a trial of facts regarding 50 charges was heard in his absence. The jury found that 42 charges were proven today.
They included a total of 30 charges of actual bodily harm and 12 counts of indecent assault.
He was cleared of a further eight charges – four indecent assaults and four physical assaults.
The Old Bailey heard McCann had joined the home in 1965 when he was 29 and worked there until it closed in 1974.
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