LONDON (ENGLAND)
Daily Mail
February 16, 2018
By James Fielding
– Peter Newell was a leading children’s rights campaigner who worked for UNICEF
– The 77-year-old, from London, led the UK’s anti smacking campaign in a long and distinguished career
– Newell also helped prepare UNICEF’s Implementation Handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child
– But now he is facing six years and eight months in jail for the abuse of a young boy
– The ‘horrific’ sexual assaults took place over a three-year period in the 1960s
– A UNICEF spokesman said today: ‘We are deeply shocked to hear of the arrest of Peter Newell.’
– He was convicted at Blackfriars Crown Court and has been put on the sex offenders register
A leading children’s rights campaigner, who helped governments around the world tackle the issue of abuse, has been jailed for raping a 13-year-old boy.
Former UNICEF consultant Peter Newell admitted three counts of indecent assault and two counts of buggery and was sentenced to six years, eight months in prison.
He has also been placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely.
The ‘horrific’ sexual assaults took place over a three-year period in the 1960s but have only come to light following a police investigation last year.
Newell, 77, of Wood Green, North London, who has led the campaign to ban the smacking of children in Britain, was sentenced at Blackfriars Crown Court on January 3.
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