MP's Half-Brother Questioned Over Historical Child Sex Abuse

Already serving 13 years, Napier questioned over more allegations of child sex abuse

The half-brother of a Conservative MP who was jailed for 13 years for carrying out hundreds of sexual assaults on young boys is being questioned over more historic abuse claims. 

Former teacher Charles Napier, 67, (left) who is related to Maldon MP John Whittingdale, (right) conducted a 'campaign of abuse' at the school where he worked in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

He pleaded guilty to 28 counts of indecent assault against 21 victims aged as young as eight - including many covering ‘multiple incidents’ - and one indecency charge in relation to those crimes.

Jailed: Former teacher Charles Napier, 67, left, who is related to Maldon MP John Whittingdale, right, conducted a 'campaign of abuse' at the school where he worked in the late 1960s and early 1970s

He later he admitted a further two separate historic allegations of indecent assault against two 13-year-old boys after he left the school, the first in 1979 and the second in 1983.

Southwark Crown Court

It has now emerged that Napier, from Sherborne, Dorset, was this week questioned over new historic abuse claims.

The allegation is believed to be that Napier assaulted a teenage boy when he was staying at Thornham Magna, Suffolk, with fellow paedophile Peter Righton.