This is an ABC podcast.

Just a warning before we start, this episode contains intense stuff, including descriptions of sexual assault.

Also, if you haven't listened from episode one you should go back and start there. Six hours drive west of Sydney is a small country town called Leighton. In the 50s, Brian McVicker was a student at the town's only Catholic

school run by nuns.

The people who they did a fantastic job, a lot of farming boys, much bigger than the nuns were, big healthy strap and

young fellas and how they contained them I got no idea but they had a long bit of

cane there which certainly kept us into a bit of order.

One day a new boy showed up at his school.

Well originally he arrived at the Converse School I went to.

The rumors at that time he'd been in a bit of trouble just floating around the town like

rumors do in a small country town.

Nobody in Leighton had much money in the 50s,

but Brian remembers this mysterious new kid

showing up with a lot of lollies. The people at that school

is sort of give it hand that falls the lollies to different people

and you're just throwing them up in the air

and make it a bit of a hero of himself at the time.

The lollies, stolen. make it a bit of a hero of himself at the time.

The lollies stolen.

The kid, his name was Neville Twain.

He was just one of those kids destined for problems, you know.

Just a few years later, Tween was admitted to a boy's home,

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