NEST OF PAEDOPHILES UNCOVERED IN THE WAKE OF THAT’S LIFE INVESTIGATION
AT least six paedophiles from Crookham Court have been exposed since Dame Esther’s BBC show That’s Life investigated the boarding school in 1988.
Its owner Philip Cadman and teachers William Printer and Anthony Edmonds were jailed in the early 1990s. Cadman and Printer got 10 years, later reduced to six on appeal. Printer was convicted of two counts of indecent assault and one attempted serious sexual assault. English teacher Edmonds got six years for four serious sexual assaults and seven indecent assaults.
In 2012, former Crookham staffer Mark Standish, who gave evidence against the trio, got four years for four indecent assaults in the late Eighties. He groomed a boy pupil with cigarettes and alcohol. Another ex Crookham teacher, Keith Cavendish-Coulson, 71, was jailed last year for attacks on boys at a boarding school in Cheshire in the 1970s. And Crookham’s co-founder, Roy Cotton, was convicted of abusing a choirboy before becoming head of the Berkshire school from 1961 to 1966. He then became a CofE priest and abused at least 10 boys over three decades.