A disgraced former teacher in Northern Ireland who was jailed for sex offences against young girls has been stripped of his OBE by Queen Elizabeth, it was announced yesterday.
Denis Edward Grant (69) was jailed at Belfast Crown Court in April for 3½ years after being found guilty of sexually abusing six girls aged between nine and 13.
An announcement in the London Gazette stated that the Queen had ordered that the OBE she awarded to Grant in the birthday honours more than two decades ago be forfeited and "shall be cancelled and annulled and . . . his name shall be erased from the register of said order".
Grant was awarded the military division of the OBE while he was acting lieutenant-colonel of the Cadet Corps at Campbell College, Belfast, in 1984.
He was jailed for abusing young girls he was tutoring at his home in Cabin Hill Park, near his former school.
Grant, who had a 40-year teaching career, was ordered to sign the sex offenders' register and was barred from working with children again.
Sentencing him, Judge Denise Kennedy told him: "Your life is in ruins, you are a disgrace." - (PA)