Biscoes Abuse Law Blog

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Carl Douglas Button, of Waterlooville, Hampshire, used his position as a Housing Officer to enter a woman’s home and sexually assault her.  The woman, in her 50’s, was subjected to a “serious and sustained attack” which Police say left her with “considerable psychological trauma”. Following a trial at Reading Crown Court, Button was convicted of…

Shocking figures from the NHS reveal that a single children’s mental health hospital, Taplow Manor, in Maidenhead, Berkshire, formerly privately run by Huntercombe Hospitals, with just 59 beds, reported more than 1,600 “sexual safety incidents” in the space of four years.  This figure made up 57 percent of the 2875 incidents of sexual incidents reported…

Survivors of former Priest Michael Studdert are urged to come forward. Studdert served as Chaplain at Eagle House School in Sandhurst, Berkshire.  Studdert was convicted in 1988 for possession of indecent images and was jailed for four years in 2006 for possessing indecent images of children.   Studdert died in 2017, leaving an estate worth £4.7m. …

Following reports published by the BBC and the Guardian in February 2023, concerning allegations of historic sexual abuse against former Olympic diver and gymnastics coach Brian Phelps, there have been multiple new allegations of sexual abuse made against him.   Phelps, now aged 78, was sentenced to nine years in prison in 2008 for indecent…

More than a dozen former pupils of Lower Lee Boarding School in Woolton, Liverpool who were subjected to sexual and physical abuse in the 1980’s and 1990’s have begun legal action against Liverpool City Council, who ran the school.  The school closed in 2009. Head of Care at Lower Lee, Peter Amundsen, pleaded guilty in…