‘Justice may well catch up’ with woman accused of abusing me, says Earl Spencer

Princess Diana’s brother speaks of being molested by ‘voracious paedophile’ while at boarding school

Earl Spencer has said that “justice may well catch up” with the woman he has accused of sexually abusing him at prep school in the 1970s.
The Earl alleged in his memoir that he was molested by an assistant matron at Maidwell Hall, in Northamptonshire, describing her as a “voracious paedophile”.
He claimed that the unnamed young woman also abused other pupils while they were in their dormitory beds.
In March, Northamptonshire Police said it was investigating the claims.
Speaking at the Hay Festival, Earl Spencer claimed: “The woman who sexually abused me is alive. I used to look her up occasionally on the internet and then the scent on her went completely cold.
“I assumed one of two things: that she was either living abroad or that she had died. But I now know she isn’t dead and I know where she is.”
He told the audience that he had not named the woman in his memoir, A Very Private School, “because I didn’t want to be responsible if she did something to herself. 
“It has been very difficult because since then people have said, ‘You have got to name her. There has got to be justice.’”
He said the woman would now be aged in her 70s and he hoped that “justice may well catch up with her”.
The Earl added: “I do feel a responsibility, actually.”
In an earlier statement, Maidwell Hall said it had made a referral to the local authority designated officer. 
A spokesman for the school urged any other pupils with similar allegations to come forward and report them either to the school, the local authority or the police.
The book also contains a series of allegations about other members of staff including the late headmaster, John Alexander Hector Porch, who meted out brutal corporal punishment with a slipper or cane.
Maidwell said in its statement: “It is difficult to read about practices which were, sadly, sometimes believed to be normal and acceptable at that time.
“Within education today, almost every facet of school life has evolved significantly since the 1970s. At the heart of the changes is the safeguarding of children, and the promotion of their welfare.”