In 1948 Wildman was to be involved in an extraordinary event which would end up being reported in newspapers far and wide including TIME magazine. He was invited to give a lecture concerning his methods of imposing school discipline at Horsley Hall school, a small ultra-progressive co-educational boarding school in Eccleshall, Staffordhsire, with just 24 pupils. No doubt he accepted such an offer with great eagerness viewing it as yet another opportunity to spread the gospel and little suspected he was being lured into a trap devised by the school’s progressive 28-year-old headmaster, Robert Copping, who was opposed to any form of corporal punishment.