UNITED KINGDOM
Belfast Telegraph

By Dave Higgens
PUBLISHED
01/11/2016

A High Court action has begun to decide the first cases in one of the biggest compensation claims involving the Catholic Church arising from allegations of historical sexual abuse.

A total of 249 men have lodged claims against the Diocese of Middlesbrough and the De La Salle Institute, which ran the St William’s children’s home in Market Weighton, East Yorkshire.

If the claims are successful the payouts are expected to run to millions of pounds.

Earlier this year the former head of St William’s, James Carragher, was jailed for a third time after he was found guilty of sexually abusing boys.

Carragher (75) was jailed for nine years in January.