TV star Nicky Campbell has urged prosecutors to take action against a former teacher accused of brutalising him as a boy
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Brownlee, now in a nursing home in Edinburgh, was deputy head of the academy’s primary school for 31 years and housemaster of Dundas House, the junior boarding house, for 11 years in the 70s and 80s. Academy survivors have been campaigning for Brownlee’s arrest for more than a year. They have been told by police that 18 charges have been submitted to the Crown Office for cruelty against boys as young as seven over 30 years.
“I can hear boys screaming and pleading for mercy as he picked them up off the floor by the hair and continued beating them with an 18-inch wooden bat. Their screaming gave me nightmares. I can’t make sense of a grown man taking a run-up to kick a little boy up the backside – dreadful beyond words.Speaking on behalf of the Edinburgh Academy Survivors group, Giles Moffatt said: “There is a history of the Crown Office letting people like this go.
Giles added that, if doctors said Brownlee was incapable of standing trial, the Crown Office should look to make a “statement of fact” to help victims achieve closure.
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