Medomsley abuse investigation
Detectives have launched a new investigation into a former youth detention centre in County Durham amid allegations that hundreds of young inmates may have been systematically abused there in the 1970s and 80s.
Former youth detention centre abuse probe opens
An investigation into historic sexual abuse at a detention centre in County Durham has opened after allegations were made by a man who claims he was raped every day for four months.
John McCabe, who spent time at Medomsley Detention Centre, said he was sexually abused by prison officer Neville Husband at the institution.
Husband was previously jailed for abusing inmates at the centre and died in 2009 after his release.
Mr McCabe said that the abuse took place 30 years ago when Husband recruited him to work in the kitchen and that he also took him out of Medomsley where he was raped by another man.
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