assaulting teenage schoolgirls with his drumsticks, subjecting a sixth-form girl to sex-talk, and engaging in a months-long "illicit affair" with a 17-year-old girl pupil.
James Clark, a former cowhand who joined the services when he was 20 and rose to be chief instructor for pipes and drums for the entire British Army, had taught drumming at the "traditional" Perthshire school since 2012.
At Falkirk Sheriff Court on Monday, a jury of seven women and eight men found him guilty three charges of common assault by hitting or touching girls' bottoms, two of them using drumsticks; three charges of breach of trust by sexual activity with or directed at girl pupils; and one charge of communicating indecently with a pupil.
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