A CHILD abuse prosecution against a former teacher from North Yorkshire has been dropped. Stephen Douglas-Hogg, 52, of Filey, is serving a four-and-a-half-year jail sentence for sexually abusing boys at St Paul’s Cathedral School in London in the 1980s.
Following his conviction in 2009, the Crown Prosecution Service said other alleged victims had come forward, but “evidential difficulties” meant there was no realistic prospect of conviction in relation to the evidence of three of the four complainants.
Formal not guilty verdicts were recorded on three counts after the CPS offered no evidence at an Old Bailey hearing.
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