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| Charles Napier jailed for 13 years for child sex abuse | Charles Napier jailed for 13 years for child sex abuse |
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| Former teacher Charles Napier has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for sexually abusing 21 boys between 1967 and 1972. | Former teacher Charles Napier has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for sexually abusing 21 boys between 1967 and 1972. |
| Napier pleaded guilty to the offences at Southwark Crown Court in November. | Napier pleaded guilty to the offences at Southwark Crown Court in November. |
| He admitted 28 indecent assault charges and one indecency offence on a child. All his victims were under 16. | He admitted 28 indecent assault charges and one indecency offence on a child. All his victims were under 16. |
| Napier, from Sherborne in Dorset, was at one time treasurer of the Paedophile Information Exchange. | |
| The group campaigned on behalf of paedophiles in the 1970s and 1980s. | |
| Before the sentencing he entered a guilty plea to two further indecent assault charges against two other boys in 1979 and 1983. | |
| His admission of guilt to the later offences means there are no outstanding charges against him and he will not stand trial. | |
| The court heard that one boy was indecently assaulted on eight separate occasions between 1969 and 1972. | |
| Napier forced another boy to commit a sex act on him. | |
| He was cleared of one other charge in October because of lack of evidence. | |
| 'Position of trust' | |
| Much of the abuse took place in a workshop at the school where he taught. | |
| He left the school in the early 1970s and went on to hold jobs working with children in Cairo and Sweden. | |
| Prosecuting, Peter Clement said Napier "exploited his role and his position of trust for his own sexual gratification". | |
| During interviews with the police Napier told officers he had been "completely out of control" and was "desperately sorry" for his actions. | |
| Napier, who is the half-brother of Conservative MP John Whittingdale, was arrested in 2013 as part of Operation Cayacos, one strand of Scotland Yard's wider investigation into historical child abuse. | |
| That investigation - Operation Fairbank - was launched in 2012 after Labour MP Tom Watson wrote to the police about allegations of a paedophile ring linked to Westminster. | |
| Napier was also a friend of at least one other notorious paedophile, the late social worker Peter Righton. |