AUSTRALIA
Brisbane Times
[with audio]
November 10, 2015
Jorge Branco
Journalist
A prestigious Brisbane school hired a now-convicted paedophile after the headmaster was warned he had been dismissed for “improper, irregular and highly odd behaviour” toward students, a royal commission has heard.
Disgraced music teacher Gregory Robert Knight started teaching at St Paul’s School in 1981, under headmaster Gilbert Case.
The year before he was forced out of Brisbane Boys’ College after complaints he instructed boarders at the school to walk from their beds to the showers with towels slung over their shoulder, not around their waist so he could watch them.
The boarding master was also accused of breaching school policy by allowing a boy to shower in his personal school quarters.
On Tuesday afternoon, former BBC head Graham Thomson told the child abuse royal commission he called Mr Knight to his office and was “confounded by his inability or unwillingness” to make a comment about the matters, after they came to his attention in 1980.
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