TV weatherman Fred Talbot has been found guilty of indecently assaulting two teenage boys when he was a teacher at a Manchester school.
The 65-year-old, who worked as a biology teacher at Altrincham Grammar school, was cleared of eight other indecent assault charges at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court earlier today.
Talbot was said to be ‘obsessed’ with teenage boys throughout his teaching career and ‘could not help himself’ around them under the influence of drink.
The inquiry began following a raid on his 18th century home in Bowdon, Cheshire, in December 2012 and he was remanded in custody for sentencing on March 13, 2014.
Among the prosecution witnesses at the trail was Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown who said Talbot set masturbation practice as homework to pupils when he was a student there.
The jury was told by the singer, who was not one of the victims, that he and other pupils in his class were shown gay porn in one of their biology classes.
According to Brown he remembers ‘in particularly’ Talbot allegedly making his pupils, who are thought to have been 11 at the time, watch a three minute clip of a man masturbating on a bed.
He described how the Granada Reports weatherman would approach the boys who had put their hands up because they had ‘succeeded in their homework’, and go up to the ones with ‘bum fluff on their lips’, ‘murmuring’ in their ears.
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