Richard Crown was the victim of predator Alan Webster. His family say they want to 'offer a voice to other victims who may still be suffering in silence'
The family of a Nottingham man, who was sexually abused by one of his teachers when he was just 12 years old, have spoken out after his attacker was convicted. Richard Crown died in a tragic accident in 2022 just a year after he finally found the courage to report what he suffered at the hands of paedophile tutor Alan Webster.
Now Richard’s family have spoken out after Webster, of Ilkeston was convicted of a number of counts of indecently assaulting him. In a statement, the Crown family said : “We hope that by speaking out, we can offer a voice to other victims who may still be suffering in silence from abuse. Richard is gone, but the legacy of what he endured and the life he lived after that abuse is a testament to his strength.
“For nearly 40 years, he lived with a pain that was both unimaginable and indescribable. While he may have been a child when the abuse began, the trauma he endured affected him for the rest of his life. We tragically lost Richard in the December of 2022 from ways that can never be fully understood by those who have not experienced such a deep, painful wound.
He said: “He preyed on 12-year-old Richard Crown, who was probably in his first year at the school. On a pretext, on occasions, he got the boy alone with him in a classroom cupboard. He hugged him, that developed into stroking . Mr Allan said after leaving school Richard began working and became a sales director for a publishing company, “but he always carried what had been done to him with him”. He said in 2021, at the age of 50 and with two grown up children, he called 101, told the police what had happened to him and the investigation began. But tragically, he died in a fall in December 2022.
The family statement continued: “Richard was repeatedly sexually abused at the hands of Alan Webster in Nottingham in the early 1980s. Today, as Webster has now been convicted of that abuse, we feel a complex mix of emotions.
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