Strawberry Field was a Salvation Army children's home near Lennon's home in Liverpool as a child, a place with wild, unmanicured grounds behind a wall that he and his friends would climb over to play in.
We know now that in so many historical cases in boarding schools, children's homes, the church and other establishments, people did cover up abuse and shield abusers in order to preserve reputations.
The trial heard the teenager's key social worker attended the ceremony, despite concerns among staff at her children's home that she was being exploited.