A retired schoolteacher is fighting extradition to the UK for alleged 'sexual abuse' decades ago faces fresh charges in Cape Town.
A man has lodged a complaint against the former maths teacher, dating back to the 1980s at Rondebosch Boys' Preparatory School in Cape Town. File imageA retired schoolteacher fighting extradition for allegedly sexually violating boys at elite schools abroad decades ago appeared in court on Monday on charges of indecent assault and committing an indecent act with a child in Cape Town.
The child abuse inquiry in Scotland has heard he allegedly “physically or sexually” abused several boys at Edinburgh Academy and at Fettes College, where former British prime minister Tony Blair went to school. TimesLIVE Premium previously reported Edgar had admitted, in legal papers while fighting his extradition to the UK, to having “urges to touch boys” inappropriately in the past while teaching in Cape Town. He had previously taught at three primary schools in the city — initially in the 1960s and later in the 1980s and 1990s, after returning from psychiatric treatment abroad “for my problem”.
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