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Conor Spackman

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BBC Spotlight reporter formerly @bbcnewsni and @bbcpanorama. Work includes Panama Papers and Spotlight RHI trilogy. Email: conor.spackman@bbc.co.uk
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A prolific abuser, a deathbed promise, and the boys who fought back

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By Conor Spackman Verified, Elaine Forrester, David Hunter
| Yahoo Verified
A school tutor who sexually abused boys more than 100 times was allowed to continue to prey on his pupils despite two complaints against him, victims say. Prolific predator Patrick Sharkey, jailed for six and a half years in June, worked at the County Londonderry school for more than a decade after the complaints and attacked more boys. One of his victims, Eamon McLaughlin, said his parents went to the principal after he was attacked during a weekend in Donegal.
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Former school worker jailed for sexually abusing 19 boys

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By Conor Spackman Verified
| Yahoo Verified
Conor Spackman - BBC News NI Thu, June 18, 2026 at 11:52 AM UTC 2 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The court heard how Patrick Sharkey abused 19 victims over a 25 year period [BBC] A former Coleraine school worker has been jailed for six and a half years in the Republic of Ireland after pleading guilty to historic child sex offences.
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Scammed out of £17k, one woman flew across UK to try to confront the suspect

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By Conor Spackman Verified, David Hunter
| Yahoo Verified
Rhonda Montgomery has not been able to recover all of the money she lost [BBC] After losing thousands of pounds in a scam, one woman has described how she flew across the UK in an attempt to find the fraudster. Rhonda Montgomery lost £17,000 from her bank account after she was contacted by scammers pretending to work for Revolut. Embarrassed and angry, she travelled hundreds of miles to confront the person she believed had stolen her money.
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