Christopher Roy Bacon (74), a former music teacher at St Helier Boys’ School and d’Hautrée School, is due to be sentenced this month for eight counts of sexual abuse of six male pupils dating back to the 1970s and 80s.
The JEP revealed last month that he was originally arrested in 1985, and after making admissions to officers during a police interview, his case was referred to the then Attorney General, Vernon Tomes, who recommended that he be dealt with by a parish-hall inquiry. He was cautioned at a meeting in St Saviour in 1985 by Centenier Snowden Robbins and was then released.
It was not until 30 years later that another victim came forward and Bacon was rearrested as part of the States police’s historical abuse inquiry, codenamed Operation Whistle. Bacon was convicted by a jury in the Royal Court last year. Now, a court judgment released online has shown that on 7 October 1985, detectives who were at
d’Hautrée investigating the theft of a micro-computer from the music block saw a ‘derogatory’ reference about Bacon, who was nicknamed ‘The Bummer’, written on a blackboard.
Full story in Tuesday’s JEP.
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