Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Gilling Castle, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom · 2006

United Kingdom: Ampleforth monk convicted of assaulting fifteen boys at the junior school

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Benedictine monk and teacher

Organization

Ampleforth (Gilling Castle junior school)

Spiritual nexus

Junior boarders under a monk-teacher's combined religious and custodial authority.

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2006-01-01 · conviction and sentence

English Crown Court (Operation Ellipse). Fr Piers Grant-Ferris, a Benedictine monk, was convicted of twenty counts of indecent assault against fifteen boys at Gilling Castle junior school between 1966 and 1975. He died in 2015.

Primary record

official statutory inquiry report conviction history report IICSA Ampleforth investigation report, pen portrait of the Grant-Ferris conviction (2018; conviction 2006).: The inquiry's account of the conviction within its Ampleforth findings.

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