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A campaign by survivors has alleged that a children's home worker, who raped a 15 year old boy later found hanged, was shielded by fellow Freemasons within the justice system. ‌

The young lad was discovered dead in a bathroom at the infamous Shirley Oaks children's home in Croydon in 1977, two years after the man he had accused of abuse was acquitted. Donald Hosegood, a known Freemason, faced trial in 1975 for 11 charges of rape and indecent assault involving four children, but the case fell apart. ‌

Additional accusations of sexual abuse were levelled against Hosegood in 1998 during the Operation Middleton inquiry in Lambeth, south London, but officers incorrectly claimed he was deceased. He eventually died in 2011 without ever facing justice. ‌

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