Two ex-pupils who alleged rape, bullying and severe sexual abuse at the junior school of Gordonstoun in the 1990s have won out-of-court settlements totalling more than £500,000 from its insurers.
The stories of Kate (not her real name) and John Findlay were first told in the Observer Magazine in 2015. Kate, who was a scholarship student, alleged she was raped when 13 years old by a gap-year teacher on a school camping trip, while John was drugged, sexually assaulted and photographed in his dormitory bed at Aberlour House, considered to be a prep school for Gordonstoun, by a different teacher. The quest for justice has been hard for both victims. “I am relieved it’s over, it’s been so long,” Kate told the Observer this weekend.
