More Arrests

The Independent On Sunday has the following on its website today.

Two men aged 71 and 68, working at a prestigious Roman Catholic school, have been arrested, and another living abroad has been summoned back to the UK in a police investigation into allegations of child abuse.

Following claims of sexual assault made by two men in their forties, the pair working at St Benedict's School in Ealing, west London, were released on bail until next month. An 80-year-old man who lives overseas is to attend a UK police station.

The Times had a more detailed version of the story last Wednesday. Here are the key points.

A police investigation has begun into new allegations of child abuse at one of Britain’s top Roman Catholic schools, threatening to overshadow the papal visit that begins a month today.

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The allegations, against three former teachers at the school, are the latest in a series of scandals that have led to monks and teachers being jailed or barred from contact with children.

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One of those under investigation is Pearce, 68, who is serving a five-year jail sentence after admitting abusing eight pupils between 1972 and 2008.

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The second person involved in the investigation is John Maestri, a former mathematics teacher at St Benedict’s. Mr Maestri, 71, has been convicted on three occasions of sex offences against children and placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely.

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A third former teacher, who has been the subject of a previous police inquiry, has also been accused by one of the alleged abuse victims. He has never been charged with any previous offence and is understood to be co-operating with detectives.

I have a pretty good idea who the third man is, but I'll leave that to be announced by the police in due course.