SCOTLAND
Herald Scotland
THE death of a leading campaigner for victims of child abuse in state care has led to renewed calls for Deputy First Minister John Swinney to put an interim compensation scheme in place.
Frank Docherty, who died yesterday at the age of 74, was one of the founders of the charity In Care Abuse Survivors (Incas), of which he was honorary president.
In 1954 aged nine, he and his siblings were removed from the care of alcoholic parents and sent to the Catholic-run orphanage Smyllum Park, in Lanark. But while there, he suffered regular physical abuse including beatings and humiliation.
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