An alleged child molester was allowed to carry on working as a teacher for 12 years after being charged with sexual offences.
More than 30 former pupils of Formby High School have now come forward claiming that they suffered horrific abuse at the hands of Ian Farquharson, who served as head of lower school. Farquharson killed himself in 1992 after a complaint was made by the mother of a child.
It has now emerged that Farquharson had been charged with inciting young boys to commit acts of gross indecency in 1980. According to reports in the ECHO, in February 1980, Farquharson plied his pupils with lemonade after school hours and encouraged them to commit sex acts while he spied on them through a keyhole.
