A “predatory” paedophile is a beneficial owner of one of Yorkshire’s top boarding schools, which educates children of members of the armed forces at the taxpayer’s expense.
Queen Ethelburga’s Collegiate, between Harrogate and York, was ranked the top-performing independent school in Yorkshire in 2021 and has been shortlisted for school of the year several times.
However, Brian Martin, who bought the school in 1991, is a convicted sex offender who was jailed in 2021 for sexually abusing two pupils: one male, one female. Martin, 73, was said by the police to be a “predatory paedophile” who had moved the school from its original site into his vast home to create “an environment that [he] could exploit for his own sinister gains”.
