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I was bullied badly at\u00a0Brentwood School<\/a>. My grades and exams were badly affected, I left school in 1969 feeling a failure and took years to recover. M D Nutt and an individual called Szolin were the worst both with physical abuse and mental torture which affected me for decades. I am better now, but rather late. I had been top of the class at primary school at\u00a0St John’s School, Billericay, Essex<\/a>\u00a0in 1963. The only thing I drew from school was amateur radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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