Nicky Campbell wept after hearing alleged historic sex abuse teacher has extradition delayed
dailyrecord.co.ukBroadcaster Nicky Campbell shed tears on learning that the extradition from South Africa of retired teacher Iain Wares has been held up again.Nicky, 63, said the continuing delay was heartbreaking for those waiting for justice after allegedly being sexually abused or brutally beaten by Wares in the 60s and 70s at his old school, Edinburgh Academy, and at nearby Fettes College.
He challenged Wares, now 85 and living in a retirement community on the outskirts of Cape Town, to stop being a coward and to voluntarily come to Scotland to face justice.Nicky said: “I wept when I heard the news of further delay.
Wares has abused hundreds of young boys over a long period. I saw it. I know it. It’s prolonging the torture, like waiting to go up to his desk when we were children.
This is heartbreaking for men whose lives he has scarred.”The South African Ministry of Justice decided in the summer, after lengthy legal arguments lasting years, that Wares should be “extradited soonest” to face the many charges waiting in Scotland.
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