Trevor Bolton – the ‘kindly father figure’ who preyed on boys at Carmel College

UNITED KINGDOM
The JC

By Simon Rocker, October 22, 2015

For some of the boarders at the exclusive Carmel College, a Saturday night treat was in store. A select group of half a dozen or so young boys would be invited up to watch Match of the Day in the flat of one of their teachers Trevor Bolton, who would give them fizzy drinks and crisps.

Bolton had arrived when he was 31 at the Jewish school, secluded in a pleasant rural campus outside Oxford, to teach French in 1968. He became master of the junior boarding house, looking after boys from 10 to 13 or 14.

When some of the boys became homesick or bullied, he would offer them comfort and a reassuring hug.

One former pupil recalled being “taken under his wing” when he was unhappy; the boy felt out of place at an institution where other pupils arrived in a chauffeur-driven Rolls while he came from modest circumstances.

Another pupil who also found life as boarder difficult said the teacher wanted to be a “second father”.

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