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Students sexually abused at university where Princess Anne is chancellor

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Harper Adams University accused of allowing 'endemic physical abuse' to occur in hazing ceremonies.

Allegations include students being sexually abused, lashed with belts, and forced to consume bodily waste.

Inquiry sparked after student blew the whistle about abuse at the Shropshire university.

Harper Adams , founded in 1901 , is ranked fourth in the UK for agricultural and forestry degrees.

Some of the perpetrators were identified as fourth-year students at the time of the alleged incidents.

Harper Adams University said it chose not to pursue further action because they had graduated by the time its investigation was launched.

The university said it does not accept that poor student behaviour can be passed off as just tradition’.

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