preyed on vulnerable pupils at the school where he taught.Bruce Rankin abused one girl who was being bullied and another who was suffering from depression.Rankin, 61, of Strathaven, Lanarkshire, admitted charges of lewd and libidinous behaviour and indecent assault when he appeared at Hamilton Sheriff Court.He was jailed for 18 months in 2017 for abusing three girls, including two pupils at the Lanarkshire school where he taught.But that sentence was later quashed at the Appeal Court.He was instead put under supervision for three years and ordered to do 150 hours of unpaid work.Prosecutor Neil Thomson said the victims in the latest case went to the police after seeing reports of Rankin's 2017 conviction.Rankin abused them between 2007 and.
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