By George Icke

Working in the region I grew up in, I always knew that one day there would be a story that arrived virtually on my doorstep.

What I never imagined was that it would be a criminal investigation into something so sick and sinister, rooted in such a familiar part of the world, that I already knew the short journey there without even needing to set maps off on my phone.

If you ask most people to picture a summer camp leader, they’ll reach instinctively for words like kindness, compassion, trust. At the very least, you assume morality.

Those assumptions are the foundation on which parents leave their children in the care of strangers and on which communities allow charities to operate largely unquestioned.

None of those words, however, can be reconciled with Jon Ruben, the man who ran the Stathern Children’s Holiday Fund.

On paper, the charity’s aims were heartwarming and honourable.

According to the Charity Commission, it existed to run holiday camps........

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