NORWICH (ENGLAND)
Eastern Daily Press
Dec. 16, 2019
A paedophile headmaster left his estate to a Catholic priest and an ex-council leader, we can reveal today, in the hope he could quash his conviction after his death.
Derek Slade died aged 66 in March 2016 while serving a 21-year sentence at Norwich Prison for abusing 12 boys at St George’s School in Norfolk and Suffolk.
Slade was convicted of more than 50 charges including sexual assault, beatings and child pornography at the private school, between 1978 and 1983.
Boys suffered horrific beatings and sexual abuse at St George’s in Wicklewood, which moved to Finborough in Suffolk in 1980 and has since changed its name.
As headmaster, Slade made boys as young as eight strip naked for beatings and then forced them to write essays about the whippings, his trial at Ipswich Crown Court heard in 2010.
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