TRAFFORD author David Nolan named two other men involved in the historic sexual abuse of pupils at Altrincham’s St Ambrose College, during the launch of his latest book last night, June 25.

Referring to the evening as ‘the world’s strangest school reunion’, the event at Local Creation, Altrincham, saw former pupils and victims of jailed former teacher, Reverend Alan Morris, share their memories.

Many at the launch had given evidence during the trial of Morris – found guilty last year of using corporal punishment to carry out sexual acts on young boys between 1972 and 1991.

Reading passages from ‘Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil’, David revealed that the book catalogued sexual assaults carried out by two other former members of staff: Norman ‘Sam’ Wilkinson and Brother Ignatius Baylor – both now dead.

Featuring the collected testimonies of numerous former students, the book reveals that Wilkinson, a biology and drama teacher, carried a ‘sawn-off’ cricket bat around in his briefcase that he used to chastise boys, thereafter making them sign their names upon it.

“By the time I arrived at the school, it was black with ink,” recalls David, adding that Wilkinson regularly plied students with alcohol.

The author recalls Wilkinson inviting pupils to his house for amateur film projects, where attendees were made to dress in leather shorts, lederhosen and knee socks, before being abused.

In some of the most shocking passages of the book, David records the memories of boys abused by Brother Ignatius Baylor.

One recalls how Baylor would single out the ‘best dressed boys’ during kit inspection before PE.

While the others went outside for games, the victim would be led to an ‘off-white, stained’ mattress in the communal bath area and made to lie face down before being abused.

One of the leading investigators in the Morris case, detective inspector Jed Pidd states: “In my view, given the separate boys that have come forward as complainants and the similarity of modus operandi, charges would have been inevitable had Wilkinson and Baylor been alive.”

David, 50, forfeited his right to give evidence during Morris’ Minshull Street Court trial in 2014, in order to contact former victims for the book.

David thinks Morris targeted boys from working class backgrounds, who were unlikely to jeopardise their place at the school by telling their parents; instead choosing to bottle up their emotions.

“It was all put in a box on the last day of school,” says one victim, who immediately rang the police when officers began contacting former students as part of their enquiries into Morris.

“I started to tell them...I got ten seconds into it and utterly broke down. I found it difficult to breath and my mouth wasn’t working fast enough.

“My brain was pushing this stuff out, to the extent that I had to slam the phone down. I rang again and apologised.

“It set off other explosions. It rattled other padlocks on other boxes. This box of bad memories had started to shake. I’d kept it under lock and key for forty years. I realised it was going to come out and, boy, did it come out.”

Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil is available from John Blake Publishing Ltd. See johnblakebooks.com or search for the book on Amazon.