Michael Hayton QC defended the first defendant in back to back trials involving abuse of young children in a local care home in the 1970s onwards.

R v AT.

Michael Hayton QC defended the first defendant in back to back trials involving abuse of young children in a local care home in the 1970s onwards. The Defendant was a carer at the home and had been previously convicted of sexual and physical abuse at the home, which was adduced at these trials. The Defendant was acquitted of multiple rapes and out of more than twenty counts on the indictments was eventually convicted of two child cruelty charges against one complainant which amounted to two common assaults.

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