UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
By Nic Rigby
BBC News
Former residents of a Catholic orphanage who claim they suffered physical and sexual abuse have expressed anger at a police decision to end an inquiry into the allegations.
In May Bedfordshire Police said it had started an investigation into abuse at the St Francis Boys Home in Shefford in the 1950s and 1960s.
Police said they had ended the inquiry as there was no-one alive to prosecute.
Ex-resident Tony Walsh said he was “disgusted” at the development.
The BBC has talked to former residents of the home who allege they were physically and/or sexually abused at the orphanage, run by the Catholic diocese of Northampton.
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