1999, the Lancashire Constabulary conducted "Operation Whiting", which looked into allegations of abuse at the school dating back to the 1970s. This resulted in two convictions, one of which was quashed on appeal. On 14 May 2002, a parliamentary committee member described the operation as "a scandal in itself" and an "expensive... fiasco". Another priest, Father Paul Symonds, at Stonyhurst between 1972 and 1979, was arrested in November 2009 for having allegedly abused a 13-year-old boy for three years. The case was dropped by the CPS Lancashire, a year later and was revealed in March 2014. In 2014, Stonyhurst was fined £100,000 and ordered to pay £31,547.78 in legal costs for the prosecution after pleading guilty to a breach of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 for health and safety failings after a stonemason working for the college developed silicosis, a potentially fatal lung disease. The college made the stonemason, who had worked for the college for almost 12 years, redundant, four months after his diagnosis. See also List of Jesuit sites in the United Kingdom List of Jesuit schools St Gordianus, interred in the school Listed buildings in Aighton, Bailey and Chaigley References Further reading Chadwick, Hubert, S.J. (1962), St Omers to Stonyhurst, (Burns & Oats), No ISBN Walsh, R.R. (1989), Stonyhurst War Record 1935–45 (T.H.C.L. Blackburn), Muir, T.E. (2006) Stonyhurst, (St Omers Press, Gloucestershire) second edition, Kirby, Henry L. and Walsh, R. Raymond (1987), The Seven V.C.s of Stonyhurst College, (T.H.C.L. Blackburn), The Authorities of Stonyhurst College (1963), A Stonyhurst Handbook for Visitors and Others, (Stonyhurst, Lancashire), third edition, No ISBN Hewitson, A. (1878), Stonyhurst College, Present and Past: Its History, Discipline, Treasures and Curiosities, (Preston: The Chronicle office), second edition, No ISBN External links Stonyhurst College website Stonyhurst's entry in the 1912 Catholic Encyclopaedia St Omers Press Stonyhurst Weather Station Meteogroup entry Stonyhurst Weather Station Met Office entry ISI Inspection Reports Boarding schools in Lancashire Catholic boarding schools in England Jesuit universities and colleges in England Jesuit secondary schools in England Roman Catholic private schools in the Diocese of Salford Private schools in Lancashire International Baccalaureate schools in England Member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference Co-educational boarding schools 1593 establishments in England Educational institutions established in the 1590s Grade I listed buildings in Lancashire Grade I listed educational buildings Grade II* listed parks and gardens in Lancashire Forest of Bowland