SCHOOL IS SUED OVER ABUSE BY 'PAEDO PRIEST'

Ex-pupil: Chaplain gave me booze& cigs before rape

- SASKIA ROWLANDS

A PRESTIGIOUS boarding school is being sued by a former pupil over historic child sexual abuse claims.

The Reverend David Barnes allegedly raped the boy at Sutton Valence School, Kent, in the 1980s.

The ex-pupil says the chaplain invited him to his home on the school grounds when he was 13.

He told us the churchman who died in 2012 aged 75 - gave him gin and cigarettes and they watched Top of the Pops on TV.

The Rev Barnes then allegedly groped him and raped him.

Afterwards, the ex-pupil said the chaplain took a photo of him with a Polaroid camera and put it in a shoebox which he alleged contained pictures of other boys.

He thinks teachers "knew exactly what was going on" but were too scared to come forward.

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