UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
A judge has retired to consider a claim for compensation by five victims of sexual abuse at a Catholic school.
More than 200 men claim they were abused at St William’s residential school in Market Weighton, East Yorkshire, between 1970 and 1991.
The De La Salle order, which ran the school, has apologised “unreservedly” for the abuse and the actions of its former principal.
James Carragher was jailed for sex offences against children at the home.
Solicitor David Greenwood, acting for those claiming compensation, said St William’s was “the biggest single home where boys were abused” that he had seen.
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