However, Judge Mark Pelling QC dismissed Mr Bailey's claims for breach of contract and breach of confidence.

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His solicitor Stephanie Pelling, said she hope the case would encourage other victims of abuse to seek help.

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But in Croydon and Sutton, the Tories took their first assembly seat when Andrew Pelling polled 48, 421 votes - almost 18, 000 more than the Lib Dem candidate Anne Gallop.

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Mr Pelling got involved in the area when he came across a reference on the internet to a research paper published in 1959 by a Spanish optometrist and amateur historian by the name of Simon de Guilleuma.

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