FORMER PE TEACHER JAILED FOR SECOND TIME
A PE instructor engaged in sexual abuse of a student weekly from the time he was an 11-year-old pupil.Malcolm Blackmore, aged 82, has received a second prison sentence for sexual offenses against young boys during his tenure as head of PE at Albany Comprehensive School located on Bell Lane, Enfield.
In 2017, he was sentenced to five years after being convicted of multiple assaults on two boys between 1982 and 1985.
After completing his first sentence and being released, Blackmore has now been sentenced to an additional five and a half years following the emergence of a third victim.
This third victim recounted that Blackmore was feared by students as “someone not to be messed with”.
According to court reports, shortly after starting at secondary school, Blackmore groped the boy’s penis during a PE lesson, as addressed at Wood Green Crown Court.
From that point onward, Blackmore sexually exploited the boy nearly every week during school terms for six years, stated Judge Tim Godfrey.
The abuse occurred throughout the 1980s over seven years, coinciding with the period Blackmore was involved in abusing two other students.
During a statement read aloud in court on October 25, the third victim said: “I was so young and naïve and living in fear.
There was no-one I could talk to and express my worries to.” He added: “What makes me so sad is that this abuser had a reputation among young boys.
The school didn’t investigate what was going on and neither did the teachers.” Although Albany Comprehensive was later demolished, Blackmore kept working there until he retired.
Sentencing him, Judge Godfrey remarked: “It is clear that you targeted [the victim] as a boy you could abuse because you identified him as a reserved child, unlikely to resist or report you.
“It appears you targeted two other boys in a similar way, the victims of the offences tried in 2017.” He said Blackmore denies the allegations and shifts blame onto the victims.
The judge noted that there was a prospect that Blackmore will die during this latest sentence, but noted the context that he continued to live as a respected family man for years after the offending, whilst the victims suffered from life-altering trauma due to the abuse.
