She said teacher Iain Wares had been asked to leave other jobs due to incidents involving small boys and this had become the “norm” in his career.<\/p>\n
She said he had secured teaching jobs in Edinburgh after moving to the city from South Africa in 1967.<\/p>\n
He had been referred to a consultant at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for treatment to “cure” him of a condition described as “homosexuality (liking for young boys)”.<\/p>\n
Lady Smith said: “Wares was employed as a teacher in Edinburgh between 1968 and 1979, first at The Edinburgh Academy and then at Fettes. He was not ‘cured’. Rather, he was and remained a prolific abuser of children.”<\/p>\n
She added that he “preyed” on children and had a “predilection for touching young boys sexually that he could not control”.<\/p>\n
“At times, he could not control his temper either, resulting in children being subjected by him to brutal assaults,” she added<\/p>\n
She said the consultant psychiatrist at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Professor Henry Walton, repeatedly failed to take action.<\/p>\n
Lady Smith said: “Walton wholly failed to prioritise the protection of children and failed to lead his team appropriately.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She said teacher Iain Wares had been asked to leave other jobs due to incidents involving small boys…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-395086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}