Trouble in Paradise: Uncovering the Dark Secrets of Britain’s Most Remote Island

Trouble in Paradise: Uncovering the Dark Secrets of Britain’s Most Remote Island
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A shocking exposé of the terrible secrets at the heart of the Pitcairn Island community – a tale of systematic child abuse and rape which stretches back over 40 years.Pitcairn Island – home to the descendants of the mutineers of the Bounty – has long been thought of as a tropical paradise. Wild and remote, it is Britain’s most isolated outpost and a fantasy destination for many.But in 1999, British police, alerted by unsettling reports of a rape, descended on the island. Their investigation developed into a major enquiry which revealed that Pitcairn was the site of widespread and horrific sexual abuse instigated by the island men on girls as young as twelve. Scarcely a man on the island was untainted by the allegations, and almost none of the women had escaped, though most residents feigned ignorance, even when their own daughters were abused. Abusers included the magistrates and police officers as well as brothers and uncles. Few of the victims were able to leave the island; those who did never went back.Kathy Marks was one of only six journalists permitted to live on the island while she reported on the ensuing trial and witnessed Pitcairn's domestic workings first-hand. In this riveting account she documents a society gone badly astray, leaving lives shattered, codes broken and a paradise truly lost.Note that it has not been possible to include the same picture content that appeared in the original print version.

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Kathy Marks. Trouble in Paradise: Uncovering the Dark Secrets of Britain’s Most Remote Island

TROUBLE IN. PARADISE. Uncovering the Dark Secrets of Britain’s Most Remote Island. KATHY MARKS

Dedication

Contents

Cast of characters

Christian clan

Brown family

Warren clan

Young family

Prologue

CHAPTER 1 A surreal little universe in the middle of nowhere

CHAPTER 2 Mutiny, murder and myth-making

CHAPTER 3 Opening a right can of worms

CHAPTER 4 No amnesty

CHAPTER 5 The fiefdom and its leader

CHAPTER 6 The propaganda campaign starts

CHAPTER 7 Key witnesses evaporate

CHAPTER 8 The trials begin

CHAPTER 9 Let’s make-believe

CHAPTER 10 Judgement day

CHAPTER 11 ‘You can’t blame men for being men’

CHAPTER 12 How the myth was forged

CHAPTER 13 Politics, poison and power plays

CHAPTER 14 Britain’s ‘ineffective long-range benevolence’

CHAPTER 15 ‘I just did my job and minded my own business’

CHAPTER 16 Interdependence + silence = collusion

CHAPTER 17 Making legal history

CHAPTER 18 The final trials

CHAPTER 19 Reaping a sad legacy since Bounty times

CHAPTER 20 Lord of the Flies?

CHAPTER 21 The last throw of the dice

EPILOGUE Isobel’s story

Acknowledgements

Copyright

About the Publisher

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For my parents

Title Page

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Gail Cox (Kent Police)

Graham Ford (court registrar)

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