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"We always said he was born to be a headmaster, and sure enough, he went on to teach and become head of not one but multiple schools," he wrote.

Months after a council decided not to investigate concerns about a headmaster's "closeness to some girls", a second safeguarding issue was raised, it has emerged.

David Morton, headmaster of The King's School in Gloucester, which charges pupils between £3,725 and £9,050 a term, says the policy is "misjudged".

Baxter said he and fellow councillors had met the headmaster of The King's School about plans for a year of events.

Finegan was the subject of sex assault accusations from several victims who were under his supervision as children when he worked as a parish priest in Clonduff and a headmaster in Newry.