LONDON (ENGLAND)
Agence France-Presse
December 7, 2017
A jury in London found him guilty of all charges. Soper, who faces about 10 years behind bars, is to be sentenced on December 19.
LONDON: A former master at a top British Catholic school was convicted Wednesday of raping and sexual abusing boys in crimes dating back to the 1970s.
Andrew Soper, 74, fled to Kosovo in 2011 to avoid prosecution over charges he molested boys at St Benedict’s School in London.
He was extradited in 2016 to face 19 counts of indecent assault and buggery against 10 former pupils in the 1970s and 1980s.
A jury in London found him guilty of all charges. Soper, who faces about 10 years behind bars, is to be sentenced on December 19.
Prosecutor Gillian Etherton told the court how Soper’s victims were subjected to sadistic beatings for “fake reasons”.
They included kicking a football “in the wrong direction”, “failing to use double margins”, and “using the (wrong) staircase”, leading to a caning and a sexual assault, she said.
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