OHMYGOSSIP — Nicky Campbell has claimed he was a victim of abuse at a Scottish school he attended during the 1970s.
The BBC presenter, who was just 10 years old when he witnessed his classmates being sexually abused in an Edinburgh private school, has broken his silence for the first time in 50 years in the hope for justice.
In a piece for the Daily Mirror newspaper, Nicky recalled the harrowing details of the cycle of abuse that began in 1971, in the rugby changing rooms.
Nicky, 61, wrote: “As we file in from rugby, the changing room – its floors as freezing as our legs – is chattering with the sound of ten-year-old boys.
“Some of us are already showering, the warm water thawing us out a bit and the smell of carbolic soap sternly reminding us where we are.
“It’s gloomy in here, so I don’t at first notice but as I reach my peg, I see a man leaning over my friend.
“My friend is laughing but I know from the fear in it that it’s not a good laugh. The man is leering and smirking. We are all giggling but what else can we do?
“It’s that primal point when laughter becomes fear but carries on in spite of itself. The teacher has both hands on my friend’s penis and is masturbating him.
“We just accept it because if he is doing it then it can’t be that wrong can it? And at least he wasn’t doing it while in one of his violent rages.”
Nicky claims he was was “brutally beaten up” by a teacher and called him out on the physical abuse.
He wrote: “When I’d been badly and brutally beaten up by a teacher, Mr X [still alive] – kicked, slapped and viciously tossed around like a rag doll – I had told my parents.
“The teacher in question was well known for his violence – the whole class had witnessed him nearly blinding one of us as he hurled a chalk duster directly at his eye – and Mum had been ferocious, demanding that something be done.
“But she had been ultimately stonewalled. For the rest of my school career, I was seen as trouble.”
It wasn’t until his wife Tina was listening to journalist Alex Renton’s programme ‘In Dark Corners’, about the abuse and cover-up in British private schools, that prompted Nicky to speak out 51 years later.
Nicky also speaks to Alex about the endemic abuse in Britain’s public schools in a new episode of his ‘Different’ podcast, out now on BBC Sounds.

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