A matron who allegedly molested Princess Diana’s brother at boarding college went on to turn into an NHS nurse taking care of sufferers with extreme psychological sickness, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
In his highly effective memoir, Earl Spencer candidly advised how a predatory assistant matron he branded a ‘voracious paedophile’ groomed him and different younger boys at Maidwell Corridor preparatory college in Northamptonshire.
At the moment, after a three-month investigation, this newspaper can reveal the id of the girl who allegedly sexually abused him when he was simply 11 within the Seventies and the way she later spent years working with weak sufferers.
Grandmother Sally Jane Carr, 67, was twice married and, after working at Charles Spencer’s college, retrained within the Nineteen Eighties as a psychological well being nurse.
She was a supervisor at a charity that helps alcohol, drug and playing addicts and spent at the very least 5 years with the NHS, specialising in serving to psychological well being sufferers who’ve a historical past of prison offending.Â
Her now deleted on-line CV described her as an ‘skilled psychological well being practitioner…expert in scientific supervision’.
Grandmother Sally Jane Carr (pictured), 67, was twice married and, after working at Charles Spencer’s college, retrained within the Nineteen Eighties as a psychological well being nurse
In his highly effective memoir, Earl Spencer (pictured as a baby) candidly advised how a predatory assistant matron he branded a ‘voracious paedophile’ groomed himÂ
Earl Spencer, who attended Maidwell between the ages of eight and 13, described how the matron, who he didn’t title within the e-book, first ‘kissed me on the lips’Â
After retiring from the NHS in 2019 she now lives in a three-bedroom terrace dwelling within the West Midlands.
When approached by The Mail on Sunday, Earl Spencer confirmed that Sally Carr was the girl in his e-book. He mentioned: ‘Sure, Sally Carr is the girl who sexually abused me in school once I was 11.’
His feedback got here as a second former Maidwell Corridor pupil named Carr because the predatory matron, and alleged that she took his virginity when he was aged 12 in a faculty dormitory.Â
A lawyer for Carr mentioned she ‘vehemently denies all allegations of any abuse being carried out by her to the Earl and every other particular person in any respect’.
Carr ‘can not probably be the person referenced by the Earl’ in his memoir, the lawyer added.
In a devastating extract from his memoir, completely printed by The Mail on Sunday in March, Charles Spencer, 60, described how the matron, who he mentioned was 19 or 20 on the time, groomed after which abused boys of their dormitory beds at night time.
Earl Spencer, who attended Maidwell between the ages of eight and 13, described how the matron, who he didn’t title within the e-book, first ‘kissed me on the lips’ earlier than she ‘promoted me to the second rank of her reverse harem: these she intimately touched’.Â
The abuse, and the emotional confusion it brought about, led to him self-harming and wanting ‘full intercourse from a too-early age’. He misplaced his virginity aged 12 to a prostitute in Italy. The peer additionally detailed horrific beatings he suffered from male lecturers on the college and the lifelong harm they brought about.
Boarding college Maidwell Corridor, the place Early Spencer revealed he was abused within the Seventies
When approached by The Mail on Sunday, Earl Spencer confirmed that Sally Carr was the girl in his e-book
In a devastating extract from his memoir Charles Spencer, 60, described how the matron, who he mentioned was 19 or 20 on the time, groomed after which abused boys
The stunning revelations in his e-book, A Very Non-public College, which topped the Sunday Occasions bestseller chart, made headlines world wide.
Talking in regards to the assistant matron on the Hay literature pageant final weekend, the Earl mentioned: ‘I am certain justice might properly meet up with her fairly quickly.’
Two days later the MoS spoke to a different former Maidwell Corridor pupil who alleged that he too was sexually abused by the assistant matron – and who named his abuser as Sally Carr.
The person, who can’t be named for authorized causes, alleged that Carr took his virginity when he was 12 and mentioned: ‘I’ve remembered her title for a few years.’ He described how she would intimately contact some boys and creep into the beds of others, after lights out, and have intercourse.
‘She used to sleep with some boys after which she did, I suppose, sexual favours to others,’ he mentioned. ‘… some nights she would come into your bed room when lights had been out after which with some – I do not know whether or not it was all of us, however I am assuming not many people – she would sleep with. Not the entire night time – you’d have intercourse, principally.’
The quietly-spoken businessman, who talked to the MoS at his dwelling within the Midlands, advised his spouse and pals of the abuse some years in the past. He had beforehand made mild of what occurred however for the reason that publication of Earl Spencer’s harrowing account he views the episode in a different way and says what the matron did was ‘clearly incorrect’.
He additionally now questions whether or not the molestation has affected him greater than he initially thought.
In his memoir, Earl Spencer revealed that he had established that the matron married at the very least twice, the primary time a yr or so after leaving Maidwell. He was, nevertheless, unable to search out her and mentioned he suspected that she had both moved overseas or was useless.
Excerpts from Charles Spencer’s new memoir had been printed completely by the Mail
Charles Spencer with sister Diana and nanny Mary Clarke on the day he leaves for Maidwell Corridor in 1972
However the MoS was in a position to set up that she is main a quiet lifetime of relative obscurity in a West Midlands market city. The primary clue to the true id of the matron got here once we found {that a} girl named Sally J Carr was registered on the electoral roll as residing at Maidwell in October 1975.
By looking publicly out there beginning information, we learnt that she turned 19 in December 1975 – the approximate age of the younger girl the Earl mentioned abused him. Carr is believed to have labored at Maidwell Corridor through the autumn time period of 1975 and the spring time period of 1976.
Information present she married in 1977, together with her marriage certificates detailing her occupation as ‘assistant matron’. She divorced in 1987 and – simply as Earl Spencer outlined – married for a second time in 1989.
In a distressing a part of his memoir, Earl Spencer particulars how, amid the emotional turmoil attributable to the abuse, he self-harmed when the matron recommended she may go away the varsity for a job within the Royal Navy. ‘I used to be so fraught on the prospect of shedding her that I began chopping on the inside my arm with a penknife,’ he wrote.
Astonishingly, Carr’s first marriage certificates, obtained by the MoS, particulars how her Scottish-born husband was a radio operator within the Royal Navy.Â
This was not the one clue to Carr’s allegedly darkish previous. Earl Spencer wrote that the matron had a middle-aged little one and that he had noticed on-line that she attended her father’s funeral some years again.
We established that Sally Carr has one little one: a 41-year-old managing director of a property funding agency.
In the meantime, her father David Carr died in 2011 aged 87. An obituary printed by The Occasions newspaper and reproduced on-line by web site Legacy.com describes him as a ‘loving father of Sally’ and ‘devoted grandpa’.
Earl Spencer claimed in his e-book that ‘when nonetheless extraordinarily younger’ the matron abused one other boy ‘at one other boarding college’ earlier than she began working at Maidwell.
‘I met a boy from that different place who indicated that she’d subjected him to the identical inappropriate and baffling experiences, and he was nonetheless in contact together with her,’ he wrote. It’s unclear the place this alleged abuse befell however the MoS has established that Sally Carr’s father was the headteacher of Yarlet Corridor, a boarding college in Staffordshire, between 1970 and 1989.
The MoS understands {that a} group of Maidwell Corridor pupils went to Yarlet Corridor in 1975 to observe a manufacturing by boys from that faculty of the musical Oliver! Sally Carr accompanied the Maidwell boys on the journey, one supply claimed.
Paperwork reveal that she and her first husband married within the Yarlet Corridor chapel in April 1977 and Carr declared the varsity as her ‘residence’ on the wedding certificates.
In a distressing a part of his memoir, Earl Spencer particulars how, amid the emotional turmoil attributable to the abuse, he self-harmed
Earl Spencer claimed in his e-book that ‘when nonetheless extraordinarily younger’ the matron abused one other boy ‘at one other boarding college’ earlier than she began working at Maidwell
In a unprecedented echo of the bodily abuse suffered by Earl Spencer at Maidwell Corridor, at the very least one former pupil at Yarlet has accused her father David Carr, a eager cricketer whose brother Donald performed for England and captained Derbyshire, of brutal beatings.
Describing the alleged abuse on-line, an ex-pupil wrote: ‘The person who set the tone in my expertise was David Carr. Others who maybe gained his approval by excelling at sports activities noticed a distinct man, however to me he was twisted and sick.
‘I used to be by no means conscious that he was explicitly sexually abusive (although what’s making kids naked their bottoms and bend over to be overwhelmed with a health club shoe, I’m wondering, if not sexualised violence?) however there was one thing I skilled as sadistic and insidious about the way in which he used his undoubted intelligence to manage and terrify.
‘Does anybody else bear in mind how he got here around the dorms in the course of the night time, along with his large headlamp of a torch, woke the present victims or suspects, and took them again to his research separately for interrogations or beatings?’
It’s believed Carr served within the Ladies’s Royal Navy Service (Wrens) within the late Seventies earlier than returning to civilian life. A web based CV reveals she certified as a psychological well being nurse after finding out on the Staffordshire college of nursing between 1980 and 1983. She additionally seems to have studied counselling at Birmingham College between 1986 and 1988.
The CV is believed to have come from a LinkedIn profile, which was deleted after the publication of Earl Spencer’s memoir. It reveals that Carr labored as a supervisor at a Birmingham-based charity referred to as Aquarius within the Nineteen Eighties, providing drug, alcohol and playing help companies.
Throughout this era her marriage to her first husband, who turned a jail officer, broke down. They divorced in 1987 and Carr remarried in Fort William, Scotland, two years later.Â
She went on to attain a post-graduate certificates in counselling at Keele College in 2012 and have become a so-called specialist practitioner in ‘forensic psychology’ at South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare NHS Basis Belief.
The NHS careers web site says forensic psychologists ‘supply therapy for many who have dedicated offences to scale back the impression of their experiences and to scale back probabilities of reoffending’.
‘You may work within the therapy of offenders in a variety of areas together with sexual offending, violence and aggression, interpersonal and social expertise and intervention to assist cease illicit drug and or alcohol use,’ it provides.
An image on Twitter in 2014 reveals her with colleagues from a consultancy created by the NHS in 2007 to help psychological well being sufferers. She co-authored a report by the consultancy in 2014 about the way to assist psychological well being sufferers in safe items with a historical past of offending.
She additionally ran a ‘workers growth’ workshop at a forensic psychological well being companies occasion held on the Royal Faculty of Psychiatrists headquarters in London in February 2017.
Talking at his five-bedroom indifferent dwelling, Sally Carr’s son mentioned: ‘She will not need to communicate to the Press. I will say it very clearly: there’s little interest in chatting with the Press from me, from anyone else.’
Reflecting on his expertise at Maidwell Corridor final weekend, Earl Spencer, who has seven kids from three marriages, mentioned: ‘You need to control kids. I’ve bought kids of all ages however all of them bought very bored by their father cross-questioning them… whether or not any lecturers made them uncomfortable.’
The lawyer for Carr mentioned there have been ‘very clear factual discrepancies’ which ‘unequivocally affirm that our shopper just isn’t the perpetrator of the alleged abuse in opposition to Earl Spencer’.
