UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News

A victim of physical and sexual abuse at a Catholic orphanage in Australia has revealed how he turned on one of his tormentors – threatening to cut his throat if he “laid a finger on him”.

Edward Delaney told the inquiry into child abuse a Christian Brother had regularly beaten him with a strap, to which a hacksaw blade had been fixed.

He was among thousands of children sent to Australia in the post-war period under UK government-approved schemes.

Mr Delaney said it was “kidnapping”.

The first phase of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales is looking at the way organisations have protected children outside the UK.