Nicky Campbell: Teacher sex abuse still haunts me

BBC broadcaster Nicky Campbell compared a teacher to serial paedophile Jimmy Savile as he told an inquiry about the sexual abuse he endured at school.

- Sarah Ward

Mr Campbell, 62, attended feepaying Edinburgh Academy between 1966 and 1978, from the ages of five to 17.

He told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry that he that he was sexually assaulted by a teacher, Hamish Dawson, who died in 2009.

And he alleged he witnessed a primary-age child being sexually assaulted by another teacher, Iain Wares, whom he compared to Savile. Permission was given by the inquiry's chair this year to identify Wares, now 83, who was previously a "protected person" and was referred to by a pseudonym.

Mr Campbell said he had used medication to cope with the memories of Edinburgh Academy and that he was "haunted" in the middle of the night by his school days.