Child sex abuser Henry Clarke tracked down to Canada

NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News

By Kevin Magee
BBC News NI investigations reporter

A serial child sex abuser who admitted his crimes to police has never been brought to justice.

Henry Clarke, 75, confessed to abusing three different boys at care homes in Northern Ireland.

A retired church pastor, he has been living in Canada since he made the admissions in 1985.

At the time, the director of public prosecutions ordered no prosecution, and police failed to act on a further confession.

The Canadian authorities were never informed.

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