LONDON (ENGLAND)
Daily Mail
December 16, 2017
By Sophie Inge
– Father Leo Maidlow Davis burned staff files from Downside Abbey in 2012
– However, the monk claimed any destruction of evidence was unintentional
– The school was investigated in an independent inquiry into child sex abuse
The headmaster of a renowned Catholic school may have destroyed evidence of child sex abuse, it has been claimed.
Father Leo Maidlow Davis, 63, now the senior monk at Downside Abbey, burned staff files dating back to the early 1980s in a bonfire in 2012.
However, he claimed any destruction of evidence was unintentional, saying his aim had been simply to ‘get rid of unnecessary old material’.
The fee-paying school in Radstock, Somerset, was examined as part of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).
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