Former Teacher Jailed for 1970s Assaults

0:00On April 2, a former teacher from Lisburn just got hit with a two-year prison sentence for indecently assaulting five girls back in the 19-70s at a school in South Belfast. The guy, 77-year-old William Lloyd Lavery from Richmond Avenue, faced just his decades after the crimes took place. The judge praised the victims for stepping up and exposing what happened, calling it a massive betrayal of the trust teachers are supposed to have. With kids, he stressed how these kinds of offenders can never fully escape their actions, because the truth has a way of catching up, no matter how much time, passes. This case shows why speaking out matters, even years later, holding predators accountable in the end.