The school matron gave evidence of how she gave almost daily care to pupils with horse shoe shaped weals on their bottoms, who were often “crying with pain and humiliation”
It was also stated that at one time the girls protested at the housemaster admistering the spankings, and asked that the housemistress (his wife) should do so again. But after two weeks they requested that he took over again, because she punished much harder!
During the summing up, it was pointed out that the school publicity brochure painted a rosy glow of “a home from home with love and attention”, whereas the reality was a regime of fear with “daily canings”.
Surprisingly there was none or very little action taken against him. The school governers said mistakes had been made and new forms of discipline were now in place. He kept his job