Devon school teacher faces 60 charges of sexual and physical abuse of children

UNITED KINGDOM
Herald Express

A MAN who taught at a Devon school for three decades is to appear at trial where he will face more than 60 charges in connection with the alleged sexual and physical abuse of children.

Paul Kelly, aged 63, is one of five men accused of a series of assaults and indecent assaults between 1970 and 1983 at St Ninian’s School in Falkland, Fife.

The Roman Catholic school was run by the Irish Christian Brothers organisation until it closed in the 1980s.

The men – Kelly of Glade Close, Plymouth, John Farrell, aged 73 of Motherwell; Michael Murphy, aged 76 from Dunfermline; William Don aged 62 from Leven and Edward Egan, aged 78 from Altrincham – face a total of 131 charges involving more than 40 alleged victims.

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