Care worker who helped boss with child abuse jailed for 25 years
Key takeaways
- Emma Glasbey Yorkshire home and social affairs correspondent BBCMalcolm Phillips was found unfit to stand trial due to old age and ill-health.
- Malcolm Phillips, 93, "cultivated a culture of fear" at Skircoat Lodge in Halifax, committing sexual and physical offences against four girls and two boys between 1976 and 1994.
- Phillips, who was deemed unfit to face a criminal trial, was given an absolute discharge by the judge at Bradford Crown Court, who said she was "bound by the statutory framework".
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Emma Glasbey Yorkshire home and social affairs correspondent BBCMalcolm Phillips was found unfit to stand trial due to old age and ill-health. A former children's home manager and "master manipulator" who abused youngsters in his care has been told he will not go to prison - as his female assistant was jailed for 25 years for helping his attacks.
Malcolm Phillips, 93, "cultivated a culture of fear" at Skircoat Lodge in Halifax, committing sexual and physical offences against four girls and two boys between 1976 and 1994.
Phillips, who was deemed unfit to face a criminal trial, was given an absolute discharge by the judge at Bradford Crown Court, who said she was "bound by the statutory framework".