1994
Paedophile housemaster jailed
Alan Johnson, a housemaster at Knossington Grange, a boarding school for boys with behavioural problems in Leicestershire.
Officers interviewed more than 100 people and spent 8,000 hours over a six-month period on the inquiry.
Johnson was charged with 22 sex offences against pupils between 1973 and 1979, including boys at two other schools where he had worked previously.
He pleaded not guilty, putting his victims through the ordeal of a trial.
Johnson was convicted on 22 counts of sex offences against 15 boys after a two-week trial.
As housemaster, he was responsible for the boys’ welfare outside school hours.
But the prosecution told how he carried children from their beds at night to his private room, using both rewards and threats to satisfy his sexual perversions.
He made some boys recite the Lord’s Prayer backwards before kissing and cuddling them, watched them naked in the shower, abused them on camping trips and took pornographic photos of some of them.
The 55-year-old was branded “wicked and evil” by the judge who sentenced him to 12 years in prison.
The boys he abused were aged between eight and 13 and described as “already damaged and emotionally deprived”
