WHEN Theresa Whitfield heard the girls' dormitory at the abandoned 
Neerkol Orphanage had burnt down, she felt relief that verged on sheer 
delight.
The two-storey brick building was a prison of pain during the "10 horrible years" she spent there in the 1950s.  Theresa (nee Gillon) was one of hundreds of thousands of British 
children who were shipped to Australia and housed in church-run 
institutions. 
 
