Police investigating claims that Princess Diana’s brother was sexually abused by a matron while at boarding school have spoken to a second alleged victim, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Northamptonshire Police last night confirmed its criminal probe into Earl Spencer’s allegations that he was molested, aged just 11, at Maidwell Hall preparatory school in the 1970s has widened, with another former pupil claiming to have also been abused.
In his powerful memoir, A Very Private School – an extract of which was published by The Mail on Sunday last March – Earl Spencer, 60, told how an assistant matron, aged 19 or 20 at the time, whom he branded a ‘voracious paedophile’, groomed him and other young boys.
The Earl wrote how the matron, whom he did not name, had first ‘kissed me on the lips’ before she ‘promoted me to the second rank of her reverse harem: those she intimately touched’.
A 67-year-old woman from Stafford was arrested in June last year.
There have been no further arrests or charges.
A police spokesman said: ‘Officers are investigating reports made by two people in relation to alleged offences.’
Earl Spencer attended Maidwell between the ages of eight and 13.
Police investigating claims that Earl Spencer (pictured) was sexually abused at school have spoken to a second alleged victim
Nottinghamshire Police confirmed that the criminal probe into the Earl’s allegations he was molested at the Maidwell Hall preparatory school in the 1970s has widened
He said the alleged abuse and the emotional confusion it caused led to him self-harming and wanting ‘full sex from a too-early age’, with him losing his virginity aged 12 to a prostitute in Italy.
He wrote: ‘I’ve frequently witnessed deep pain, still flickering in the eyes of my Maidwell contemporaries.’
Northamptonshire Police has encouraged ‘anyone who has suffered abuse’ to contact them and stressed that people reporting sexual abuse have the legal right to lifelong anonymity.
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