11 MARCH 2000, Page 30

Not one of ours

From Mr Adrian Aylward Sir: I refer to the letter by Adrian Hilton in The Spectator of 26 February.

I should like to make it clear that no Jesuit priest from Stonyhurst was accused of 'buggering young boys', as he asserts, nor did Stonyhurst College fund any legal defence costs for the Jesuit priest to whom I imagine he is referring.

Adrian Aylward

Headmaster, Stonyhurst College, Lancashire