WALES
Wales Online
BY MARTIN SHIPTON
New claims surrounding a former headteacher from Newport who killed himself when he was confronted with an allegation of child abuse suggest he was one of the most prolific paedophiles in recent Welsh history.
BBC One Wales programme Week In Week Out has been told by solicitors representing several of his alleged victims that Jon Styler is now thought to have targeted around 100 boys.
Andrew Collingbourne, a solicitor representing several of Styler’s alleged victims, told the programme: “I believe we’ve only scratched the surface, there could be 100 plus victims.”
Styler, a charismatic former head teacher of the Church in Wales primary school at Malpas near Newport, hanged himself in 2007 while being investigated by Gwent Police about an allegation of abuse against a boy.
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