Former St Helier Boys and d’Hautrée music teacher Christopher Roy Bacon, who was eventually convicted in court last year of eight counts of sexual abuse against six victims in the 1970s and 80s, made frank confessions to officers after he was first arrested in October 1985.
He admitted in interview that he ‘got intimate in a mild sort of way’ with a teenage boy and eventually they ‘groped each other’s private parts’ and that he got ‘pleasure from caning and slippering students’.
Evidence was passed to the then Attorney General, Vernon Tomes, in 1985 and he recommended that Bacon be dealt with at a parish hall inquiry – reserved for the most minor offences. He was cautioned and never appeared in court.
Full report in Monday’s JEP.
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