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🗓️ 6 June 2025
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When Lucky Boy launched back in March, there was an important detail that didn't make it into the podcast, for legal reasons: the team had discovered that they weren’t the only people who had been investigating the allegations made by Gareth - the Metropolitan Police had been too.
Now, reporter Chloe Hadjimatheou has an update.
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0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Chloe Hajimuthau. I'm a narrative editor at The Observer and the host of the Tortus Investigates podcast, Lucky Boy. |
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0:56.4 | Tautus. |
1:08.9 | Hey, this is Chloe from Tautus Investigates. I'm the host of Lucky Boy, coming to you now from our new home, The Observer. |
1:14.1 | If you haven't listened to Lucky Boy yet, you can do that right here on Tortoise Investigates, |
1:18.1 | but if you have, then keep listening, because I've got an important update. |
1:22.8 | This isn't really a full episode, but I just wanted to let you know what's been happening with this story. |
1:24.3 | If you remember in the final episode of Lucky Boy, I told you how the teaching regulation agency, |
1:30.2 | the TRA, banned Sally Ann Bowen from teaching again. |
1:34.8 | What I couldn't tell you back then, for legal reasons, is that while I was carrying out my own |
1:39.6 | investigation, the Metropolitan Police decided to reopen theirs. |
1:44.9 | So we were kind of investigating separately but in parallel. |
1:49.7 | I've kept in contact with the detectives in charge of the case |
1:53.0 | and I've been following what they've been up to. |
1:55.6 | And in May, they let me know they'd reached a decision. |
1:58.9 | They were going to charge Sally Ann Bowen. She was given a date |
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