SCOTLAND
The National
AUGUST 13TH, 2016
JANICE BURNS
VICTIMS wept in court as the headmaster and a teacher from a former Catholic school for troubled boys were jailed for a total of 15 years for a catalogue of horrific physical and sexual abuse against six pupils more than 30 years ago.
One person shouted “hope you enjoy every day of it” as priest John Farrell, 73, and Paul Kelly, 64, were led away to serve their jail terms.
The pair preyed on youngsters between the ages of 11 and 15 at St Ninian’s in Falkland, Fife, run by the Christian Brothers organisation before its closure in 1983.
Sentencing the pair at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday, the judge condemned them for committing a “gross abuse of trust” in one of the biggest abuse inquiries of its kind ever carried out by Police Scotland.
Farrell, of Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, was jailed for five years for three counts of indecent assault. Kelly, of Plymouth, Devon, was given 10 years in prison for four counts of indecent assault and two assault charges.
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