The paedophile manager of a children's home was facing a lengthy jail sentence today after subjecting vulnerable boys in care to "unspeakable" cruelty. Peter Harley, 77, preyed on the children at a now-closed local authority institution in Moffat, in Dumfriesshire.
Harley has already been jailed for 15 years in 1996 after admitting sexually abusing 16 boys at Merkland Childrens Home which he ran for several years. He was later imprisoned for a further six years for further offences following another conviction at Cardiff Crown Court.
After his latest conviction at the High Court in Edinburgh a judge told him: "You are a thoroughly wicked individual." Judge Michael O'Grady QC said: "It is to state the obvious perhaps, but you were in a position of the greatest trust."
