Former headmaster ‘abused teenage boy in 1973’

A former school headmaster who was awarded an MBE for services to young people had sexually abused a 14 year-old boy decades earlier, a court heard today (MON). John Coatman, 75, allegedly groomed the teenager after setting up a Christian youth group called ‘The Crusaders’ based at his home in Croydon, south London. The victim left the group a few years later, met his wife and moved out of the area to become a church minister, jurors were told. He finally…