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VICTIMS of disgraced church minister Neville Husband last night called for a public inquiry into his campaign of homosexual rape of teenage inmates while working as a prison officer.
Husband, who will be 68 next month, abused his power in a "gross and wicked" way which "amounted to a campaign of homosexual rape", Newcastle Crown Court was told yesterday.
The minister is serving eight years after being found guilty of a string of sex attacks against teenage boys during a nine-year campaign, from 1976 to 1985.
Husband, who trained as a minister for the United Reformed Church after leaving the Prison Service, was serving at two churches in Gateshead when he was jailed for eight years, in 2003.
He was brought back to court yesterday after six former inmates of Medomsley Detention Centre, near Consett, County Durham, contacted...