Disabled father ‘killed himself after demands for unpaid Edinburgh Academy fees’

A despairing father took his own life after being subjected to “relentless, ceaseless and vicious” harassment from Edinburgh Academy when a climbing accident left him permanently disabled and unable to pay tuition fees, his son has disclosed.

Struan Malcolm, 48, has broken decades of silence after the independent school — the alma mater of Robert Louis Stevenson — became embroiled in a series of scandals.

Last week a BBC Panorama documentary disclosed how the broadcaster Nicky Campbell and other former pupils were subjected to sexual and physical abuse at the academy, which has produced generations of surgeons, solicitors and stockbrokers.

Now Malcolm, the chief executive officer of a Swedish fintech company, has triggered a fresh police investigation, claiming that he was punched in the face