Perrott Hill 8

I had not planned on writing any more posts about Perrott Hill, but I have changed my mind! Well, my Canon scanner is now working properly and I have found a few more photos that might be worth putting into my blog.

The English Room was my domain for four years, a large room at the top of what used to be a Victorian country house. The English Room was at one point divided into three separate classrooms, but then it just became one big classroom and the library next door. 

Yes, my desk was one of those high ones, like something out of Dickens. Mr Squeers would have approved! Blackboards and chalk were still much in vogue, as overhead digital projectors had not been invented.

I am just including these photos of various Perrott Hill pupils because they are good photos! 


 Well, they are good for me, as I am not really much of a photographer.

This is the only photo I have of Derek Hoare, at the school photograph. I have included this photo because someone wrote a comment about Bartle Frere on a previous post. Bartle Frere was D.G.G.H.’s nephew and Bartle visited the school a couple of times while I was at PHS and he also tagged along with the end-of-year school camp. He took lots of photos and many of them were included in the school magazine.

Bartle Frere is currently in prison, serving a twelve-year sentence for sexually molesting boys. After becoming a British Airways pilot, Bartle Frere often travelled to India and it was there that he started molesting children. Did Derek have any idea that his nephew was a paedophile? I really do not think so. I do not think that Bartle Frere started his crimes in the UK. It was only after he joined BA that his trips to India gave him the opportunity to indulge his perversions. I am glad that Derek was dead by the time Bartle’s crimes became public knowledge.

 

Ex-BA Pilot Denies Child Sex Offences


Bartle Frere is accused of abusing underage boys in India while working as a captain with BA, as well two boys in the UK.

Monday 29 September 2014 15:38, UK

Frere is said to have used his job with British Airways to meet young boys

A former British Airways pilot has denied committing sex offences against underage boys in India and the UK.

Bartle Frere, who is accused of 25 sex charges, told his trial at Bournemouth Crown Court he was "asexual" and had no interest in sex with either men or women.

Asked whether he was interested sexually in young boys, the 50-year-old said: "I've always had a low sex drive. It's never something I have required or desired in my life.

"I find their company stimulating. I enjoy the banter you can have with them.

"I also find young boys aesthetically pleasing to look at but I don't find them sexually attractive in any way."

Frere worked for British Airways for 25 years before leaving in February this year.

He was arrested in November last year after police found pornographic videos and indecent pictures on his computer and children's clothing in a bedroom drawer.

Investigations revealed Frere's regular social network contact with teenage boys in India.

The defendant said that he took monthly British Airways flights to Chennai in India, spending rest days visiting the nearby fishing village of Nochi Kuppam.

He said he became friends with the villagers because of his passion for photographing both children and adults and that he bought them clothes and gifts.

He said: "If I was there for several days I might spend a couple of hundred pounds, maybe less. I am in a position of being very well paid and don't have to support a family - it's money I can afford."

Frere, of Abingdon, Oxfordshire, denies a total of 25 sex charges.

He is accused of five offences of arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence, which relates to his alleged conduct with boys in India.

Against the first alleged victim in the UK, he is charged with five counts of indecent assault; one count of indecency with a child and two charges of buggery.

He also faces a charge of one count of sexual activity with a child and one charge of attempting to record a person doing a private act in relation to a second alleged victim in the UK.

The defendant also faces six charges of possessing indecent photographs of a child and four charges of making indecent photographs of a child.

The trial continues.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A Whale of a Trip

Image
No, it's not migrants arriving in Italy   We decided that we wanted to go on the Whale Shark Tour. We have done several other tours in the Philippines and really this was the only one we had not done. The hotel told us that we had to get up at 5.30am, which we were not too keen about, and they said that the trip would cost us 1,200 pesos each. They also told us that we would probably back at the Bee Farm by 2 or maybe 3pm. Well, we duly got up at the right time and took a tuktuk, one of those three-wheelers that does a passable impression of a WW2 Bren Gun carrier.   We soon arrived at Alona Beach, on another part of Panglau island, where the Whale Shark trip was supposed to start. A couple of Filipinos paddled us out to the ship in what looked like a plastic box. More than two hours later, we were still at Alona Beach, waiting for the trip to start! Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum, me hearties! Waiting for our turn to see the whale shark s We finally l...
Read more

Educaring, 2

Image
Not so long ago, I wrote a post for my blog called Educaring . Please do not misunderstand me. I really do believe that teachers, youth workers, parents (and indeed anyone involved with young people) all have a duty to protect children and teenagers, to keep them safe. As I argued in my previous posting, I also believe that the task of protecting children is becoming more and more difficult - almost impossible, in fact. Yes, the Internet has a lot to do with it, I am sure, but there is another problem that is hardly ever discussed.  In a nutshell, anyone who genuinely cares about children finds it very hard to imagine how evil and how subtle child molesters and pedophiles really are. I think that is probably why many teachers and parents just do not know when a pedophile is "grooming" a child and why they often do not believe it, even when confronted with the unpleasant truth. Michael Green at Windlesham House School I knew Michael Green when I was teaching at Windlesh...
Read more

On the Cards, Part 1

Image
Getting our new Bulgarian residency cards from the Microwave Oven Woman Rejoice! Let's celebrate. Hallelujah! At long last, the Microwave Woman has given us our new Bulgarian residency cards (BRCs). As a special treat, just in case you do not know what a BRC looks like, here is my old one.  My dear wife suggested that I should "black out" certain bits, as there are lots of evil people out there on the Internet, all gathering my personal and financial details in order to swindle me or involve me in some dreadful scandal or some such nonsense. Of course, no one who reads my blog could ever do such a nasty thing!   Getting our new BRCs means that we can go ahead with our applications for our Russian visas. Then, maybe two or three weeks later, our passports will be returned to us, with new Russian visas stuck into them. The other good news is that the insurance agent in Dragoman did not lose my car registration document. When she had finished giving me my new car ...
Read more