Broadcaster Nicky Campbell has told an inquiry of sexual abuse he endured at Edinburgh Academy as he compared a teacher to Jimmy Savile.
Mr Campbell, 62, attended the fee-paying schoo, between 1966 and 1978, from the ages of five to 17.He told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry he was sexually assaulted by a teacher, Hamish Dawson, who died in 2009, and alleged he witnessed a primary-age child being sexually assaulted by another teacher, Iain Wares, whom he compared to Savile.
Permission was given by the inquiry’s chair earlier this year to identify Wares, 83, who was previously a “protected person” and was referred to by a pseudonym.Mr Campbell said he had used prescription medication to cope with the memories of Edinburgh Academy, and said he was “haunted” in the middle of the night by his schooldays.
Mr Campbell said he hid the abuse, which began in junior school but escalated in senior school, from his adoptive parents, Sheila and Frank Campbell.He recalled being in preparatory school when he allegedly saw Wares molesting a pupil aged about 10 years old in the showers.
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