Gregg’s heir abused children for 30 yrs
Former head teacher and social worker told he will be locked up HOW TO CLAIM
AN HEIR to the Greggs bakery empire is facing jail after being convicted of the sex abuse of four boys.
Judge Robin Mairs told Colin Gregg, 75, These are serious matters and a custodial sentence is inevitable.”
Grandfather Gregg helped to build up the family business in the 1960s but later became a teacher, head teacher, social worker and charity boss.
He was found guilty of nine counts of indecent assault by a jury at Leeds Crown Court yesterday.
He assaulted the boys, aged between 11 and 14 at the time, over three decades, from the 1960s to the 1990s.
The jury was told he was once head teacher at the fee-paying King’s School junior school in Tynemouth, and also taught at Durham School, a private boarding school.
He also worked as a social worker in Newcastle.
Gregg, from Gosforth, Newcastle, denied all the charges, claiming he was the victim of a “witch hunt” and the victims were looking for compensation money.
He showed no emotion as the verdicts were read out and he left the courtroom saying nothing after he was granted bail.
The month-long hearing in Leeds was a retrial after a jury in Newcastle last year failed to reach verdicts.
As Gregg left the court building under an umbrella, he was asked if he would apologise to his victims, but said nothing before he was driven away.
He will be sentenced at Newcastle Crown Court on March 30.
John Dilworth, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “Throughout his life, Colin Gregg has been a successful businessman, respected teacher and committed charity worker.
“Those achievements won him the gratitude of the community but, beneath his respectable veneer, Colin Gregg was sexually abusing young boys with alarming regularity. He exploited his position in society.
“I would like to praise the bravery of the victims in this case. It is thanks largely to their evidence that the court has found Gregg guilty of nine charges of non-recent sexual assault, charges for which he had evaded justice for a considerable number of years.” More than 160 couples in a village in eastern China have decided to divorce in order to get more compensation after the forced demolition of their homes. WE’VE teamed up with Aldi and the Scottish Government’s Eat Better, Feel Better campaign to give Daily Record readers another great offer.
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