The drumming instructor of a Scottish boarding school, where he was also an assistant housemaster, was jailed today after 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 chief instructor for pipes and drums for the entire British Army, was told by a sheriff: "Sexual activity in relation to a girl under 18 in relation to whom a man is in a position of trust is always a crime." Clark, 56, had taught drumming at the "traditional" Perthshire school since 2012.
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