Former staff at Medomsley Detention Centre quizzed on abuse

Detectives leading the UK’s biggest investigation into historic sexual abuse have spoken to 30 former staff members at the detention centre where young victims were preyed on.

A total of 1,254 victims have come forward to tell Durham Police that they were physically or sexually abused in the 60s, 70s, and 80s at Medomsley Detention Centre near Consett, which closed in 1988.

This was where guard Neville Husband and his accomplice Leslie Johnson were able to commit sex attacks on vulnerable young men, many of whom were briefly locked up for offences which would nowadays be dealt with by community orders.