NC for this as it would instantly out me to anybody familiar with the case.
Also TW as this is about horrific child abuse.
Quite a few years ago now I was involved in a non profit UK wide countryside organisation. I thought it was a great idea and was amongst the earliest people to join and one our focuses was to try and get more youngsters out and about and excited about being in the countryside.
Great idea and we really did help to get people of all ages more involved in the great outdoors.
One of the other members that had joined up early started voluntarily pouring their own money into paying for stands at local agri shows and country fairs in their area (South of England).
He then started demanding that everyone involved had to do things his way because he had invested so much of his money in the organisation. He was a real creepy, nasty dude in general so myself and several others that had put our hearts and souls in ended up pushing the founder to kick this person out of the organisation.
He went nuts, went on a proper hate campaign against all of us which in fairness was to be expected. He then set up his own organisation and set about luring our members over to him.
I ended up stepping away from all of it but a couple of years later one of my friends from our organisation phoned me to tell me that this man had been arrested for the most horrific child abuse offenses. I was physically sick and all these years later am still not over it tbh. In fact I've been so messed up by it that until now I have only ever told one person.
I'm in Scotland so never met the man in the flesh and I'm not trying to claim some sure and certain preknowledge that this man is a monster but he gave me the judders from the get go. His wife seemed lovely and I am so glad now that she died of cancer before it all came out. Oh and he was milking her dying with all of his cronies and getting all of the sympathy and fuss while still doing horrific things to little children and animals.
Hindsight is always 20/20 and now it is obvious that he was spending his money to get access to children - no wonder he flipped out when we cut his supply off.
TRIGGER WARNING AGAIN - these links are fucking grim. His name is Nicholas Cordery.
www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/9762965.farmhouse-near-crudwell-at-centre-of-major-paedophile-investigation/
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19947914
www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/paedophile-ring-held-sex-parties-at-farmhouse-in-british-countryside-26864982.html