Pupils at Gordonstoun boarding school were “feral” and regularly showed racist and sexist behaviour, an inquiry has been told.
The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry heard from a woman who attended the Moray school and its preparatory school Aberlour House in 1979 and the early 1980s.
The woman was referred to only as Jane to protect her anonymity. She told Lady Smith’s inquiry teachers at both schools showed a lack of boundaries which left her feeling unsafe, while pupils were often self-governing through the system of accommodation “houses”.
Andrew Brown QC, counsel to the inquiry, asked her if misogyny was prevalent at the school.
Jane said: “A lot of girls went out with considerably older boys to have protection.”
Describing “cruel” behaviour from boys at the school, she recalled them going on a “Jew hunt”.
Two girls from Africa who stayed in her house were left , “very isolated”, she said.
Asked how she felt when she eventually left the school, she said: “I felt ruined”.
The inquiry continues.
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