New UUP MLA Jon Burrows: ‘I narrowly escaped paedophile teacher's clutches - I'm still angry he got away with it for so long'
UUP MLA Jon Burrows says he 'escaped the clutches' of prolific paedophile schoolteacher Lindsay Brown 'by centimetres'.
Mr Burrows, who was co-opted into the Assembly earlier this week, details horrific scenes in Bangor Grammar when he attended the school in the 1980s.
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