If they do not know the people they employ to run their business, then they do not know much. I wouldn’t trust them with my dog, let alone my kids.

It’s 2014 not 1950 – before they’d go to the village priest to find out who so and so was – now a quick internet check loads all the info you need to know about the people you need to screen.

“without having heard all the evidence”.

All the evidence will never be heard. The other person who could could have given evidence is dead. Now he’s free to invent whatever he wants.

Spot on, A Montebello. I used to do a bit of acting in Malta and whenever I was told Erin Tanti might be in a play I was in, I pulled out. I couldn’t stand him.

He had the most startling delusions of grandeur and he turned really vicious and nasty when faced with criticism or objection.

If his own pitiful excuse for “theatre” bombed (as it always did) it was always someone else’s fault: the critics, because they just didn’t “get” his genius; other members of the theatre community, because they weren’t as imaginative or radical or avant garde as he was; the audience, even, because they needed a better education (I’m paraphrasing his own words here).

And he couldn’t understand why people didn’t adore him. He thought he was God’s answer to theatre, and some great artiste and intellectual (hysterical) and it clearly really bothered him that women his age were so uninterested in such a stunted specimen. He was referred to as “the leprechaun” in theatre circles, but there was no gold at the end of his rainbow.

He’d claimed he was gay for a while, and then bisexual, but everyone knew he was just trysexual – as in he’d “try” anyone willing to give him the attention he craved.

I hope he gets a lot of that special attention in prison. He’ll wish he’d really jumped off that cliff. It’ll be more than a “broken hip” he gets in there.

He got the Lee Harvey Oswald version of attention though.

That is not a very high grade version of attention, even if that I personally think that Lee Oswald was innocent.

Oh, come on! Judging him without having heard all the evidence! The fact remains that this poor excuse for a man was a teacher in the company of one of his 15-year-old pupils, at 4am at Dingli Cliffs, when she had already been reported missing by her family, and she ended up dead. Aren’t those facts enough for you, or do you imagine there is some kind of scenario in which those facts might be justifiable in his regard?

They give them an amnesty when Labour comes to power.

The fact that he was at Dingli Cliffs at 4:00am with a 15-year old pupil of his is enough ‘facts’ for me.

How can you excuse his behaviour? Really, are you going to stoop so low as to pin the blame on whoever employed him?

Surely they could not have know that this man fantasised about screwing minors. How could they have known?