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Medomsley Detention Centre child abuse probe now biggest in UK
Alleged victims of staff at the Consett institution now outnumber those in all other child sex abuse cases combined
Neville Husband
The investigation into assaults on inmates at Medomsley Detention Centre is now the biggest child abuse inquiry in the UK.
And the staggering 1,123 men who have reported being physically or sexually assaulted while at the County Durham institution make up half of all alleged victims in the country, it has been revealed.
Two former prison workers Neville Husband and Leslie Johnson, who have both since died, were jailed 10 years ago for abusing youngsters at the centre
But after more victims came forward Durham Police launched ‘Operation Seabrook’ in 2013 to look into the allegations of repeated sexual and physical abuse of the young inmates, in the 1970s and 1980s.
Since then more than 1,000 new victims have come forward, and detectives have interviewed 16 former members of staff, arresting two.
The huge number of victims makes the Medomsley enquiry the biggest of its kind in the UK, ahead of those involving the late Liberal MP Cyril Smith and the alleged sexual abuse centred around Dolphin Square in Westminster.
Police say around one third of the new Medomsley victims have reported being sexually assaulted by either Husband or Johnson.
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