Well, I did not make this story up, so yes. As you will have seen, I wrote that piece a few years ago. After it was published various people commented. Some opinions were like yours, they praised him and said what a kind mentor he had been to them, others added to my picture, even saying he had been removed from the house and put in charge of the sixth form to get him out of harm's way. I believe he later married. Maybe that changed him for the better?
Could the Thornberry of your recollection be the same Derek Thornbery whose death in 2016 was mourned by many who attended Woolverstone Hall? In my memory, and in theirs, he was a quietly great man, not given to the violence you describe, but remembered as a kind mentor. Many of his former pupils attended a memorial at the school after his death, and planted a tree in his memory.
Well, I did not make this story up, so yes. As you will have seen, I wrote that piece a few years ago. After it was published various people commented. Some opinions were like yours, they praised him and said what a kind mentor he had been to them, others added to my picture, even saying he had been removed from the house and put in charge of the sixth form to get him out of harm's way. I believe he later married. Maybe that changed him for the better?
The nightmares have finally ceased, but it is still a disgusting memory.
Could the Thornberry of your recollection be the same Derek Thornbery whose death in 2016 was mourned by many who attended Woolverstone Hall? In my memory, and in theirs, he was a quietly great man, not given to the violence you describe, but remembered as a kind mentor. Many of his former pupils attended a memorial at the school after his death, and planted a tree in his memory.
Harrowing.