Notorious Catholic school was ‘dictatorship’

A notorious Catholic school where a monk allegedly abused 10 schoolboys has been described as a ‘dictatorship’ by one former pupil, a court heard. The atmosphere at St Benedict’s in Ealing, west London, was ‘poisonous’ when father Andrew Soper, 74, allegedly preyed on children in the 1970s and 1980s, it is claimed. Complainants claim the school has covered up ‘serial abuse’ by priests and staff for the past six decades and one former pupil believes a paedophile network was operating…