Ex-d’Hautrée music teacher Christopher Roy Bacon was jailed for 5½ years yesterday for a series of offences against six boys in the 1970s and 80s.
The 74-year-old’s crimes had such a profound impact on one of his victims – who were all aged under 15 – that he turned to drink and tried to take his own life years later.
The Royal Court’s Superior Number, which convenes only for the most serious cases, heard that, in the most extreme example of abuse, Bacon performed sex acts on one boy on several occasions in a sound-proofed music suite at the school before forcing the child to touch him inappropriately.
Commissioner Sir Michael Birt, presiding, said some of Bacon’s offences were more serious than those committed by notorious former Victoria College teacher Andrew Jervis Dykes – who was jailed for four years in 1999 for sexually assaulting six pupils.
Full report in Thursday’s JEP.
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