The school | Lucky Boy Ep3

Elon's Spies | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Chloe hears from a former teacher who seems to support what Gareth believes - that there was a cover-up. And it’s still going on today.

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Reported and produced by: Chloe Hadjimatheou and Gary Marshall

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Podcast artwork: Lola Williams

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0:00.0	Tortus
0:07.0	Just a warning before we start.
0:13.0	This episode includes descriptions of sexual abuse, strong language and references to suicide.
0:22.9	Last time on Lucky Boy.
0:24.8	I spoke to the school several times, and they didn't want to tell me anything.
0:29.3	She was just like, they know, they know.
0:31.5	And I was like, what do you mean they know?
0:33.0	How do they know? Like, what do they know?
0:34.7	And I've no interest in a witch hunt on a teacher about something.
0:37.7	So, yes, I'd say that was confirmation.
0:39.5	If ever there was confirmation from the school.
0:41.5	And if the school's covering it up, I think it's maybe because they think it's not a big deal.
1:08.2	Yeah. How can a child of 12 make a mature judgment about something like sex for the first time, which it has not the first idea about, and cannot possibly weigh the consequences of it?
1:12.0	A child is able to recognise a pleasurable experience.
1:17.1	He is able to recognise a pleasing emotional experience.
1:20.4	He is able to express consent.
1:30.8	There's a way I'm beginning to look at this story that separates it into two acts. There's a way I'm beginning to look at this story that separates it into two acts.
1:37.4	There's Act 1, what's alleged to have happened in the late 1980s between Gareth and Miss Bowen,
1:41.9	how it was handled by individual teachers and the school as an institution.
1:50.6	That Christ College, it seems, had asked Sally Ann Bowen to quietly move on before the school and everyone left in it moved on too.
1:54.7	The fact that Gareth wasn't able to was left as his problem.
1:57.7	That's the first act.
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