Five OWs have now come forward to allege sexual abuse against former Warwick School music teacher Charles Watmough. He was interviewed under caution by the Police but for reasons I cannot explain they decided not to prosecute. I tracked him down to Scarborough where he now lives, a couple of years ago, and attempted to doorstep him but he refused to answer the door. Over the weekend another OW has been in touch.
He says:
“Charles Watmough taught me music and was always very friendly with the music pupils. One of my friends, in the Sixth Form, told me about how he would regularly go to Charles flat for drinks and cigars. One evening after we had been out in Leamington Spa, a group of us went back to ‘Charlie’s flat’
Anyway, we smoked cigars and drank whiskey. I told my parents about it the next day and they told me to not do that again so I declined any further visits.”
Nothing happened to this boy but with another OW telling me over the weekend of how Paul Stainsby, now on trial for his crimes, invited him to a party where he found many other 14 year old boys, stacks of alcohol and a bunch of men in their thirties, you do wonder…
What sort of culture existed at Warwick where men in their 30s – who turned out to be paedophiles – were just able to invite boys into their homes to ply them with alcohol and nobody said or did anything about it? Clearly parents know. The boys knew all about it. Did nobody in charge have any idea?
He says:
“Charles Watmough taught me music and was always very friendly with the music pupils. One of my friends, in the Sixth Form, told me about how he would regularly go to Charles flat for drinks and cigars. One evening after we had been out in Leamington Spa, a group of us went back to ‘Charlie’s flat’
Anyway, we smoked cigars and drank whiskey. I told my parents about it the next day and they told me to not do that again so I declined any further visits.”
Nothing happened to this boy but with another OW telling me over the weekend of how Paul Stainsby, now on trial for his crimes, invited him to a party where he found many other 14 year old boys, stacks of alcohol and a bunch of men in their thirties, you do wonder…
What sort of culture existed at Warwick where men in their 30s – who turned out to be paedophiles – were just able to invite boys into their homes to ply them with alcohol and nobody said or did anything about it? Clearly parents know. The boys knew all about it. Did nobody in charge have any idea?
Of course they did. As I name another Warwick paedophile later this week you will see how the rot and cover-up went much higher up to the heart of the School.