The former head teacher of physical education at a prestigious private Edinburgh school has been found to have carried out a shocking 27-year campaign of abuse against pupils.

John Young indecently assaulted three children by pulling their shorts aside and exposing them while he was in charge of the PE department at the Edinburgh Academy.

Young, a former international rugby referee, also assaulted pupils in his care by punching and slapping them and beat them with implements including a cricket bat and a megaphone.

Young, now aged 91, was also found to have used lewd, indecent and libidinous practices towards several children by striking their genitals with a towel, seizing one child’s genitals and compressing and grabbing pupils’ hands to wash their genitals.

All the offences were com

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