Princess Diana’s brother is understood to be frustrated at how long police are taking to investigate claims he was sexually abused at boarding school.
Grandmother Sally Jane Carr was arrested almost exactly a year ago after a Mail on Sunday probe identified her as the matron Earl Spencer alleges he and other boys were molested by in the 1970s.
Ms Carr, 68, was last weekend seen walking her dog near her terraced home in the Midlands.
In his memoir, A Very Private School, Earl Spencer, 61, told how a matron groomed him and other boys at Maidwell Hall preparatory school in Northamptonshire. Police announced they had opened an investigation on June 10 last year and the MoS understands Ms Carr was arrested the next day. She was released on conditional bail.
In January, Northamptonshire Police confirmed its probe had widened, with another ex-pupil claiming to have been abused. The MoS understands Earl Spencer met detectives this year to give a statement about his allegations. But one ex-pupil at the school said the Earl has grown frustrated at the pace of their probe and is concerned they are ‘dragging their feet’.
Princess Diana ’s brother Earl Spencer (pictured) is understood to be frustrated at how long police are taking to investigate claims he was sexually abused at boarding school
In his memoir, A Very Private School, Earl Spencer, 61, told how a matron groomed him and other boys at Maidwell Hall preparatory school in Northamptonshire (pictured)
In his memoir, the Earl, who attended the school near Market Harborough from the age of eight to 13, said the matron, whom he did not name, had ‘first kissed me on the lips’ before she ‘promoted me to the second rank of her reverse harem: those she intimately touched’
Northamptonshire Police said: ‘Investigations of this nature are complex and often take this amount of time due to the large amount of information that needs to be collated and processed.’
In his memoir, the Earl, who attended the school near Market Harborough from the age of eight to 13, said the matron, whom he did not name, had ‘first kissed me on the lips’ before she ‘promoted me to the second rank of her reverse harem: those she intimately touched’.
He wrote that he had established the matron married at least twice but he was unable to find her, suspecting she had moved abroad or was dead.
The MoS was able to establish the woman was Ms Carr and that she became a nurse looking after patients with severe mental illness.
