Teacher and barrister who ran abusive home cannot be identified, high court rules

The high court in London. Mrs Justice Theis said the welfare needs of the children were best achieved away from the glare of any publicity. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

A primary school teacher smashed their adoptive children’s heads together, forced them to swallow soap and called one of them a “black bastard”.

Their partner – a barrister who also sat as a deputy district judge in the family courts – repeatedly failed to protect the children from their campaign of abuse.