Pair jailed over 'regime of terror' at Coventry children's home

Two retired social workers responsible for a sadistic “regime of terror” at a children’s home during the 1980s have been handed lengthy jail terms.

Alan Todd – who sexually abused two of his victims and taunted a vegetarian child with the carcass of a dead rabbit – was jailed for eight years and eight months for his “grotesque” ill-treatment of children.