One of Scotland’s top private schools failed to protect pupils from sexual and physical abuse, the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has found.
The inquiry chairwoman Lady Smith said children at Fettes College in Edinburgh were regularly abused by both teachers and other pupils from the 1950s until the end of the 1980s
She named several staff members who were complicit in the abuse, including ex-headmaster Anthony Chenevix-Trench, who she said had been employed at the school “despite having a problem with drink, and having a propensity to beat boys excessively” at his former school, Eton.
Fettes, whose ex-pupils include former prime minister Sir Tony Blair, has previously apologised over the abuse.