16 February 2006
SEX CLAIM EX-PUPIL'S GUN BID
A VIOLENT criminal took a gun into a school to shoot a teacher he says sexually abused him years earlier, a court heard yesterday.

The 40-year-old gunman told the High Court in Edinburgh he only stopped when he saw the classroom was full of pupils.

Matthew George, 56, a teacher at Kerelaw School in Stevenston, Ayrshire, denies attacking the ex-pupil and forcing him to performa sex act in 1979 or 1980.

The witness - now a career criminal - was sent to the school for troubled kids in his teens.

He told the court he once saw George engaging in a sex act with a man. He said the teacher made him performa similar act.

Police interviewed the former pupil in 1997 during a probe into the school.

But he said he felt "betrayed" when nothing seemed to happen. He told the court he returned to Kerelaw "to shootMatt George" - but changed his mind when he saw the class full of children.

The trial continues.

 

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