AUSTRALIA
The Australian
FEBRUARY 28, 2015
Natasha Robinson
Senior Writer
Sydney
Ean Higgins
Reporter
Sydney
IT was a number dialled by mistake, the kind of happy accident of modern technology that ends in a welcome reunion with a boyhood kindred spirit.
Roger Hanney had accidentally called the number of his Knox Grammar schoolmate, Graham(whose name has been changed to protect his identity), and the pair — one a consultant, the other an artist — swapped stories of their recent lives.
The conversation last November turned to the mates’ alma mater, one of the nation’s most exclusive independent schools, where fees top $28,000 in the senior years.
Five former Knox teachers had been convicted in 2009 of sex offences against Knox students, and the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was probing how the existence of such a pedophile ring at Knox was allowed to continue for so long.
Amid the casual conversation between the old friends came a bombshell, as Graham revealed a long-held secret.
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