The jury would head that “boys were ordered to strip naked and lie on their stomachs across a low bed with the hands on the ground so that their skin is brought taut and they were then beaten savagely with what the boys described as a swagger stick”.
Mr. Polson added: “It has a brass knob at one end and the other end had been split and bound with adhesive tape.” Some boys were given a series of canings or beating with the stick. Weals were raised and blood was drawn.
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