How Parktown Boys' high paedophile Collan Rex was schooled in abuse
In September 2018 Collan Rex, a former water polo coach at Parktown Boys’ High School, was found guilty on 144 charges of sexual assault and 14 of assault. He was later sentenced to 23 years in prison. It was one year longer than he’d been alive. Rex had molested, assaulted and choked a boarding house full of grade 8 schoolboys into silence and shame. His response in court? It had been done to him, in the same way, at the same school. In this edited extract from ‘Brutal School Ties’ author Sam Cowen interviews the serial abuser in prison
28 June 2020 - 00:00
He was shorter than I thought he would be, just a little taller than me. He had grown his hair longer since the trial, and it was pulled back into a hair band. He had a full beard, neatly trimmed, and was wearing green prison garb.
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