Police probe new allegations into paedophile head

Police are investigating 2 caller grooming and intersexual maltreatment cases involving paedophile caput teacher Neil Foden.

North Wales Police said the allegations related to victims who were "children astatine the clip of the offence".

Foden was jailed for 17 years successful July aft sexually abusing 4 girls implicit a four-year period.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said constabulary had not been successful interaction regarding immoderate caller allegations.

Foden was caput teacher astatine Ysgol Friars successful Bangor, Gwynedd, and strategical caput teacher astatine Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle successful Penygroes.

Former Ysgol Friars unit subordinate Ana, not her existent name, said she was disquieted facts related to the lawsuit were not being shared with authorities and "secrets" were "casting a shadow" implicit the school's future.

"There are radical determination (at the school) who person information... and the feeling I person is that they won’t travel forward," she said.

Ana worked astatine the schoolhouse for 20 years and Newyddion S4C has spoken to respective existent and erstwhile unit members who shared her feelings.

The North Wales Safeguarding Board is carrying retired a kid signifier reappraisal to spot what lessons tin beryllium learned.

But determination are concerns the reappraisal is constricted and determination are calls for a nationalist enquiry and autarkic reappraisal of the region council's processes.

Ana questioned however overmuch item the sheet had been fixed astir however the schoolhouse was run.

Brian Jones, the school's recently appointed seat of governors, said the kid signifier reappraisal squad had visited the schoolhouse connected "several occasions" and unit had been fixed the "opportunity to stock concerns oregon accusation that whitethorn beryllium of usage to them".

Ana said the civilization Foden created astatine Ysgol Friars was "suppressive, toxic, fearsome and bullying".

She said determination were "many things that person happened astatine the schoolhouse that needed to travel out" and "there are immoderate members of unit who cognize much than they are saying".

After the crimes came to light, Ana claimed determination was not capable enactment for teachers and different schoolhouse staff.

The greeting aft Foden's arrest, she said determination was a peculiar unit meeting.

"We were sent consecutive backmost to enactment aft receiving the quality and were expected to transportation on, erstwhile successful world each we wanted was to get unneurotic and sermon what we had conscionable heard.

"It was a horrible situation."

She said a counsellor was available, but said immoderate recovered it hard to inquire for assistance and requests for appointments were not anonymous.

It is understood astatine slightest 10 teachers are connected semipermanent lack from Ysgol Friars, with sources claiming determination had been an mean of 18 absences a time since October.

Mr Jones said: "155 individuals enactment astatine Ysgol Friars, and people each has been affected arsenic a effect of Neil Foden's horrific crimes."

He said the caller governing assemblage was "committed to doing their precise champion for the payment of the school's pupils and staff".

Ana besides criticised the council, Cyngor Gwynedd, for not taking power of the schoolhouse aft Foden was accused, saying it should person reacted "a batch sooner".

Recognising the difficulties faced by pupils and staff, the assembly said its acquisition section had been moving with the teaching staff, enactment unit and schoolhouse governors to "restore and stabilise the concern for the payment of each the school's pupils".

During Foden's trial, the tribunal heard colleagues saw him spell to his car with 1 of his victims and hug her.

A erstwhile pupil who claimed Foden groomed her for 5 years said teachers and different schoolhouse unit saw her get into his car unsocial respective times.

Ana said galore successful the schoolhouse were alert immoderate girls got "a batch of attention" from Foden.

"We knew arsenic members of unit we were not expected to transportation children successful our cars, truthful wherefore was it antithetic for Foden, and wherefore didn't anyone question that?"

Ana said she felt capable to talk astir however Ysgol Friars was tally aft leaving the school.

She said: "Every day, I deliberation astir those young girls Foden abused."

Foden near the schoolhouse successful September 2023, but she said "secrets formed a shadiness implicit the school".

"I would accidental that galore elder unit person been moulded into however Foden wanted them to behave.

"This is bigger than Foden himself. He made definite helium was surrounded by radical who weren't going to question him.

She said the schoolhouse needed a "clean slate".

Mr Jones said helium could not remark connected matters relating to staff, but "any allegation" brought to the board's attraction would beryllium dealt with successful accordance with its policies.

The decision of the children's signifier review, chaired by Jan Pickles, is owed adjacent outpouring and volition beryllium presented to the Welsh government, but determination are concerns astir the connection processes and "timeliness" of responses.

The Child Protection Panel said the reappraisal squad would marque nonstop interaction with individuals should they request to conscionable oregon sermon thing further.

But immoderate wrong the schoolhouse assemblage said they were disquieted astir confidentiality and wide consciousness of the reappraisal process, with parents not fixed a nonstop enactment of connection with the North Wales Safeguarding Board.

A missive from the schoolhouse successful July said accusation should beryllium sent to the caput teacher oregon a subordinate of unit "in whom you trust".

There has been nary further correspondence with parents.

Some said they were "surprised" and felt accusation should beryllium sent straight to the panel.

The schoolhouse does not presently person a imperishable caput teacher, with David Healey, who was lawman nether Foden, successful interim complaint since September 2023.

Mr Jones said the station had been advertised 3 times but truthful acold it had "not been imaginable to marque a imperishable appointment" and arrangements to name a caput teacher connected a impermanent ground were nether way.

The assembly said recruiting a imperishable caput teacher had been "challenging" and a caller attack was needed.

Mr Healy is understood to person applied for the imperishable post, but was not successful.

The assembly said a ceremonial "recovery plan" was to beryllium implemented, saying it had "proactive steps successful place" to reappraisal interior processes, including a barrister investigating events successful 2019 referenced successful the trial.

"We tin guarantee that we volition not for a infinitesimal hide astir the astir important ones successful this full concern - the girls who should person been harmless successful their school, and that is wherefore we are going done these processes and arrangements," it said.