Overview
- Carroll publicly identified Kevin Adams after Adams’s name appeared in court filings over the weekend, saying he can now confirm the man named in those documents was the person who assaulted him.
- Kevin Adams was tried at Chelmsford Crown Court in 2023, found guilty of sexual offences, sentenced to 20 months in prison, placed on the sex offenders register and banned from entering Carroll’s village.
- Carroll first disclosed the assault in his memoir Owning It and gave evidence at the trial, which he described as humiliating and damaging to his life and career.
- Adams previously had public roles on BBC shows and ran a children’s dance school that ceased trading in 2022, and his social media accounts have since been set to private.
- Carroll has asked people not to circulate photos of him with Adams and says he has been contacted by other male survivors, a development that highlights survivor control over naming and the risk of retraumatisation during prosecutions.