Pervert headmaster was awarded MBE ‘for services to young people’

  A former headmaster who was once awarded an MBE for services to young people today (MON) admitted sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy more than 40 years ago. John Coatman, 76, groomed the teenager after setting up a Christian youth group called ‘The Crusaders’ based at his home in Croydon, south London, in 1973. Coatman originally denied the abuse and in April this year successfully overturned his conviction for gross indecency at the Court of Appeal because of errors by…