Thursday, May 4th, 1967, p3.
Telephone tapped master says
A former mathematics and science teacher at a private boarding school near Salisbury said at Hampshire Assizes at Winchester yesterday that he had reason to believe that the mail was opened and the telephones tapped in the school, many of whose boarders were children of Servicemen overseas.
Mr. Michael John Quirk, the teacher, was giving evidence for the prosecution on the second day of the trial of the headmaster of Cholderton College, William Michael Byrd, aged 38, who has pleaded Not Guilty to 12 charges. Five of the counts allege assault occasioning bodily harm and the remainder allege cruelty in his treatment of boys under his control. Seven boys between the ages of 11 and 16 are involved.