A paedophile who ran children's homes has been convicted of a "shameful catalogue of abuse" spanning decades. John Allen, 73, who ran a string of homes in Wrexham, denied
40 counts of abuse against 19 boys and a girl from the late 1960s to the
early 1990s.
He was jailed in 1995 for abusing boys, Mold Crown Court heard. The latest case was brought by a new inquiry into historical abuse claims. "It wasn't care, it was like hell," one former Bryn Alyn resident said. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-30099592