| − | In the 1970s, Righton used his professional position to set up a school for emotionally disturbed children, called New Barns School, which he used to get access to boys. If they complained, they could be easily branded liars as they were already classified as “troubled”. Righton’s homosexual partner, Richard Alston, was head teacher of New Barns School, in Toddington, Gloucestershire, where pupils later made allegations about abuse of children under 12. In Operation Fairbank, police questioned a man who was one of Righton’s victims. He was taken out of New Barns school, and molested systematically. “The victim, now in his 40s, told how Righton and members of PIE groomed him and sexually abused him in London from the age of 11 in 1977 until he was 16.” Righton boasted to him that he had friends and contacts high up in the Establishment and the government. The victim says he once saw Righton in the company of Cyril Smith, MP. | + | In the 1970s, Righton used his professional position to set up a school for emotionally disturbed children, called New Barns School, in Toddington, Gloucestershire, which he used to get access to boys. If they complained, they could be easily branded liars as they were already classified as “troubled”. Righton’s homosexual partner, Richard Alston, was head teacher and Righton was one of the governors. Pupils later made allegations about abuse of children under 12. In Operation Fairbank, police questioned a man who was one of Righton’s victims. He was taken out of New Barns school, and molested systematically. “The victim, now in his 40s, told how Righton and members of PIE groomed him and sexually abused him in London from the age of 11 in 1977 until he was 16.” Righton boasted to him that he had friends and contacts high up in the Establishment and the government. The victim says he once saw Righton in the company of Cyril Smith, MP. |