Had ─ The Tragedy of Crookham Court School

Ian Mucklejohn went to Crookham Court School as a two-week replacement to cover for an absent teacher. In what he thought was a real-life Llanabba Castle, he diarized its eccentricities, realizing that these disguised a sinister undercurrent. Twenty years later he helped expose one of the greatest scandals in modern British education.

The after-effects on the children at this school and at those schools its teachers went to afterwards continue to this day. Mucklejohn has been the recipient of several disclosures which have led to abusers being jailed decades after their crimes were committed.

In this book, written as events unfolded, he shows how easily what started as one man’s hobby devastated children’s lives – all without the knowledge of any of the parents, most of the teachers, in the absence of any intervention from authority and mostly at the expense of the UK taxpayer.