SCOTLAND
Fife Today
Liz Rougvie
liz.rougvie@jpress.co.uk
Friday 22 July 2016
Two men have been found guilty of ‘the most appalling abuse’ against boys at a former school in Falkland.
John Farrell (73) and Paul Kelly (63) were charged with sexual and physical abuse of more than 20 ex-pupils of St Ninian’s School between 1977 and 1983.
Farrell was found guilty of four charges and Kelly was convicted of seven in charges which involved five victims.
They had denied a total of 51 counts of physical and sexual abuse at the school.
The pair committed indecent acts on boys aged 11 to 16 and forced the children to perform sex acts on them, the High Court in Glasgow heard. They punished the children by forcing them to stand naked in a hallway.
The trial, before judge Lord Matthews, began in April and was one of the longest abuse trials ever heard in Scotland. Dozens of the alleged victims gave evidence have given evidence, some of whom are now in their 50s.
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