Nicky Campbell ‘in mourning’ for lives he and his friends should have had after inquiry laid bare decades of abuse

Broadcaster Nicky Campbell said he felt sorry for the families of the serial abusers who preyed on children at Edinburgh Academy after a landmark inquiry laid bare decades of abuse.

Mr Campbell, who attended the school from 1966 to 1978 and was himself abused by former teachers Hamish Dawson and John Brownlee, said the report also left him mourning the lives that victims should have been able to lead.

Reacting to the findings of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, he said: ‘I think we have got to feel sorry for the children of these men, for their wives.

‘It’s not their fault and

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