The witness who wore a wire to Kevin Lynch's home has revealed what made him do it at royal commission On Wednesday the 37-year-old's brother read out his statement to the child sex abuse royal commission, saying Lynch also confided in him that Mr Case had paid for security guards to protect Lynch from past students coming around to attack him. BSE organised the first of two visits to Lynch's Brighton home in November 1996 as part of an investigation launched after he complained to police a month earlier. He said on that first visit, he told police waiting just around the corner he expected Lynch to try to touch him and described the home as looking like a "doctor's surgery". "Lynch then said 'have a shower and then I just want you to come back into the room with just the towel around yourself and then just stand in front of the mirror for five minutes again and then lay down and I'll come in, but the door will be locked, the door will be locked'," BSE submitted to the commission.

"I said, 'If the door's locked, how are you going to come in when I'm lying down?' "Lynch asked 'Are you okay to do that?' and I just said 'Yeah, no, I don't think so mate.' At this point I had to try very hard to refrain from hurting him badly." He asked Lynch "why did you touch me like that?" To which Lynch replied, "I could get seven years for that". BSE was "shocked and angry" when police told him they didn't have enough evidence but he returned to his abuser's home about a month later to a completely different aesthetic. "When I arrived at Lynch's house, I noticed there were big pictures of his kids hung up all around his house, which weren't there the first time," he said,

"It was clearly a setup for some kind of pity story that he had. "He told me that he had been raped and thought that he might have AIDS. I thought to myself 'I hope so'." Finally, BSE dug out an old box with nine appointment slips detailing visits to Lynch and the police decided they had enough evidence to charge the depraved predator on January 22. He killed himself the next day. The former student, now 37, only decided to go to police when he was 19 and it had been five years since he thought about the times Lynch abused him.

"It came to me one day at work when I was sanding furniture," he said. "It came out of nowhere and hit me like a bomb that I must go to the police. BSE asked a work colleague whether what Lynch did to him was normal. "He looked at me and shook his head in disbelief and said 'no that's terrible man. You've got to speak to the police'." BSE told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse he wanted a criminal inquiry into Mr Case's involvement in the matter.

Mr Case has denied ever being told of Lynch's abuse and is expected to give evidence Thursday or Friday. For independent news coverage, be sure to follow our Facebook feed.



