A prolific sex offender who stole an innocent man’s identity and spent almost three decades on the run has been found guilty of numerous sexual offences against young boys. Richard Burrows was found guilty of 54 offences on Monday 17 March 2025 at Chester Crown Court,...
Richard Burrows is on trial over allegations that he abused boys between the late 1960s and mid-1990s, while working at a school in Cheshire and later as a scout leader in the West Midlands. Mr Burrows has previously admitted 43 out of 105 charges, the prosecution has...
John Pycock, 83, who was a Scout leader in Billinghay and then later in Fiskerton, had denied five sexual offences against one victim, who is now an adult and can not be named. But a jury at Lincoln Crown Court found Pycock guilty of one count of indecency with a...
Survivors have told LBC that repeated calls on the group to improve safeguarding have fallen on deaf ears and now measures including mandatory reporting are needed to stop the abuse. The Scouts have paid out millions in court settlements to survivors over the last...
A former Nottinghamshire scout leader has been jailed for sexually abusing two children. Nottinghamshire Police said Jonathan Withey abused a boy and a girl after meeting them at a scout camp in 1997. Withey, of Tindall Close, Chilwell, was jailed for 16 years at...
Yours In Scouting is run by those with lived experience of child abuse in The Scout Association, supported by The Good Law Project. Yours In Scouting believe that The Scout Association is not doing as much as it could to protect children, based on evidence in The...
A retired teacher is facing jail after being convicted of sexually abusing boys at two boarding schools. Piers Le Cheminant, 77, taught at Oakwood School in Chichester and Salisbury Cathedral School between the late 1960s and early 1980s. Complaints about his...
Millions of pounds have been paid out in the last ten years to people who were abused in the Scouts, lawyers say. BBC File on 4 contacted 13 law firms who specialise in child abuse claims, and data from the eight that responded revealed more than £6m had been paid out...
Andrew Gibson, 84, of Weston-super-Mare, used his position of trust, first as a scoutmaster and later as a warden on Lundy Island, to abuse his victims. He was sentenced yesterday (Tuesday, June 7) at Bristol Crown Court for offences against five different victims,...
A HAMPSHIRE sex offender who molested a teenager during camping trips has been spared an immediate jail term. Former Boys' Brigade leader and charity founder David Wall was handed a suspended prison sentence because he had already served time for similar...
Former Waterlooville scoutmaster and teacher Gary Coy, 65, groomed, isolated and abused the 12-year-old boy, rubbing his body and genitals when he had him alone. Prosecutor William Sneddon said Coy repeatedly touched the 12-year-old schoolboy who felt ‘unwell and...
A former Army Cadet leader who admitted sexual offences against boys in north London has been jailed. Raymond Waller, 69, of Bergerhof, Holland, was sentenced to nine years for assaults on four victims. He was also placed on the Sex Offenders Register and issued with...
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