"This is one of the worst cases of sexual abuse I have come across in 17 years of working for the Home Office, and with some of the most prolific sex offenders in the country," he said. From accounts given by victims and former staff, he may have abused boys every day of his tenure there.ĭr Elie Godsi, a former senior psychologist for the Home Office, gave evidence in the civil action brought by Young and other victims. He moved to Medomsley, the smallest detention centre in the country, where he abused boys aged between 16 and 19 until he was moved 16 years later. Details of that arrest were written on top of his employment record and went with him throughout his career. Husband admitted showing the material to boys in his care, but argued that he was interested in child pornography only because he was conducting research into homosexuality. The material seized included sado-masochistic images involving teenage boys.Īstonishingly, the charges were dropped. In 1969, eight years before Young was jailed, Husband was arrested at Portland borstal in Dorset and charged with importing pornography. Perhaps the most horrifying aspect of the Neville Husband story is that the detention centre, the prison service and the police all knew of his interest in boys. A rope was put round my neck and turned till I passed out.
I could see them from the bottom of the blindfold. Then three or four others raped me as well. In his house I was blindfolded, ligatured and made to lie on the stairs. "He was so sure of himself that he was able to take me out of the prison against my will and to his private house just outside the prison gates. Young insists there wasn't just the one man abusing him. "I was told by Husband that you could easily be found hanged at Medomsley, and that that year, six boys had already hanged themselves." "I thought I was going to be killed," Young says. He locked the door, took out the key and stuffed the keyhole with tissues. It was the worst of the worst." That day after Young arrived, Husband took him to a storeroom above the kitchens that he had converted into a lounge. "I was raped repeatedly, tied up and ligatured. "The truth is, nobody would have believed me."Ībuse might be too mild a word for what Husband did to Young over the next two months.
The second thing you need is a victim who's 'reliable' a reliable victim is someone who's already been abused to the point where, if they do speak out, who on Earth is going to believe them? And who on Earth is going to believe Kevin Young, the pauper's son, who has been in and out of care, who's a knife-wielding thug, a bully?" That is how a number of care home reports described Young, but he insists he was a quiet, over-obedient boy. One, anonymity or silence – if you can't carry out your act without people knowing, you're not going to be at it very long. "By successful, I mean without being prosecuted. "There are two things that are important to successfully sexually abuse somebody," Young says. Young was one of a handful of new inmates sent to work in the kitchen with Husband. Young later discovered that Husband had asked for his file – he wanted to know everything about him most importantly, whether he had family who were likely to visit him. The morning after he arrived at Medomsley, Young was lining up for breakfast when he was picked out of the queue by Neville Husband, the officer who ran the kitchen.