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Sick scout master who abused 10 boys walks free after less than four years

Date Shared: April 1st, 2025
Date Released: March 31st, 2025
Source: sundayworld.com
Depraved former scout master David Barry has been freed from prison after serving just three years and nine months for the sexual abuse of 10 boys. The vile pervert was transferred from the Midlands Prison to Mountjoy’s Training Unit in Dublin three days before he was released on Wednesday of last week. Evil Barry (75), of Montrose, Firgrove Gardens in Bishopstown, Cork, was jailed for five years for a horrific catalogue of offences against young scouts in June of 2021. His sentencing hearing heard how he’d installed bunk beds in his home, where he abused boys who...

Judge rejects attempt to overturn inquest verdict on Stockport scout’s death

Date Shared: January 31st, 2025
Date Released: January 30th, 2025
Source: theguardian.com
A high court judge has rejected an attempt by a scout leader and an assistant to overturn the findings of an inquest jury that concluded they were responsible for the unlawful killing of a 16-year-old boy who fell from a cliff during an expedition. Ben Leonard from Stockport, Greater Manchester, became separated from his group during a hike in north Wales and fell about 60m (200ft) from a ledge, suffering a fatal head injury. At the end of a 32-day inquest in Manchester in February 2024, the jury reached a unanimous conclusion of unlawful killing by the scout leader Sean Glaister...

A UK jury found that a boy who fell during a Scout outing was unlawfully killed

Date Shared: February 23rd, 2024
Date Released: February 22nd, 2024
Source: apnews.com
A jury in the U.K. found Thursday that a 16-year-old boy who died on a Scout trip in 2018 was unlawfully killed, and a coroner referred the Scout Association to British police for investigation.

Scout Ben Leonard would still be alive if walk was planned - inquest

Date Shared: January 6th, 2024
Date Released: January 5th, 2024
Source: bbc.com
A scout who fell to his death on a trip would still be alive if the walk he was on had been properly planned, a police officer has told an inquest.  Ben Leonard, 16, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, slipped 200ft (61m) from the Great Orme in Llandudno, Conwy, in August 2018. Ben and two friends were walking away from the rest of the group when he slipped and fell, the inquest heard.

Scout leaders accept responsibility for teen's Great Orme death

Date Shared: January 6th, 2024
Date Released: January 4th, 2024
Source: bbc.com
Ben Leonard, 16, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, slipped 200ft (61m) from the Great Orme in Llandudno, Conwy, on an Explorer Scouts trip in August 2018. Lawyers for the Scout Association told an inquest in Manchester they accepted they were at fault.

Scouts: Millions paid out over UK abuse in last 10 years, say lawyers

Date Shared: June 22nd, 2023
Date Released: June 13th, 2023
Source: bbc.com
Millions of pounds have been paid out in the last ten years to people who were abused in the Scouts, lawyers say. BBC File on 4 contacted 13 law firms who specialize in child abuse claims, and data from the eight that responded revealed more than £6m had been paid out in compensation in the last decade.

Scouts criticised by coroner as Ben Leonard inquest adjourned

Date Shared: January 6th, 2024
Date Released: November 2nd, 2022
Source: bbc.com
The Scout Association has been criticised by a coroner for its "lamentable" disclosure of documents to a teenager's inquest. A hearing into Ben Leonard's death was adjourned by coroner David Pojur after he said the evidence was incomplete.  Ben, 16, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, slipped 200ft (61m) to his death from the Great Orme in Llandudno while on a Scout trip in August 2018. The hearing at Wrexham's Catrin Finch Centre was due to start on Wednesday. The jury at a previous inquest into Ben's death was discharged in February 2021 after the court heard the...

Scouts apologise to Ben Leonard's family after inquest delayed

Date Shared: January 6th, 2024
Date Released: February 19th, 2021
Source: bbc.co.uk
The Scout Association has apologised to the family of a teenager after his inquest was delayed due to concerns a jury was misled. Ben Leonard, from Stockport in Greater Manchester, died after falling from the Great Orme, Conwy, in August 2018.  The 16-year-old was on a trip with Reddish Explorer Scouts at the time. Last year, Mr Pojur issued a report to prevent future deaths, which contained 20 points of concern, to be sent to the Scout Association, after hearing Ben had been unaccompanied by a leader when he fell from the cliff edge.

Ben Leonard: Family devastated by death from Great Orme

Date Shared: January 6th, 2024
Date Released: August 28th, 2018
Source: bbc.co.uk
A 16-year-old boy who died falling from cliffs on the north Wales coast has been described as a "kind, caring, witty and wonderful". Ben Leonard died when he fell on The Great Orme at Llandudno on Sunday.  Paramedics and emergency personnel tried to revive Ben, from Stockport in Greater Manchester, but he died at the scene.

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