‘If the Crown Prosecution Service with all its expertise and with all its experience of winning and losing was not willing to progress the complaint at the time the offence was allegedly committed, it’s almost certainly because they didn’t think the chances of a conviction warranted the expenditure of the time and money necessary to test the matter before a jury.’
I don’t think the CPS was around in the 1960s – it’s my understanding that decisions whether to prosecute were left to the police. The Headmaster was a Freemason and I would not be entirely confident that the decision would be taken on merit.