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A FORMER remedial school teacher who was the long-term partner of a Paedophile Information Exchange founder has been found guilty of molesting an 11-year-old boy.
Richard Alston, 70, met the victim while working at Cavendish School for “maladjusted boys” in Greenford, Middlesex, in the late 1970s.
Together with his partner Peter Righton, Mr Alston forced the child to watch pornography and then perform sex acts on him.
It was the investigation into Mr Righton, who was convicted of importing child pornography in 1992, that led to MP Tom Watson using parliamentary privilege in 2012 to allege that there was “clear intelligence” of a VIP child sex abuse ring.
A jury at Southwark Crown Court cleared Mr Alston of several offences, but he was convicted of incidents that took place when Mr Righton was present and participant.
The verdicts were reached last week, but can only be reported now for legal reasons.
