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STV News
16 hours ago
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- STV News
Former Latin teacher who abused boys admits further historic abuse of pupil
A former teacher who was jailed for abusing boys has admitted to the repeated abuse of a female pupil. Andrew Wilson preyed on the teenage girl in the early 1980s. The now 78-year-old a was a Latin teacher at the time at a secondary in Angus as well as the leader of the school's hillwalking club. Wilson was jailed for three years in 2021 for the serial abuse of three boys. It was media reports of that case which led this latest victim to also bravely go to police and report her ordeal from 40 years ago. Wilson pleaded guilty at the High Court in Glasgow to the repeated indecent assault of the girl between 1981 and 1984. The pensioner had been on bail, but he was remanded in custody pending sentencing next month. Prosecutor Adrian Stalker told the court: 'The incidents of sexual abuse took place without the consent of the girl. 'He groomed her over several years during which time he indecently assaulted her continuously.' The young victim was said to have had a troubled home-life at the time. Mr Stalker said: 'Wilson took advantage of the girl's vulnerability and his position as a teacher.' Wilson first struck after returning from a trip to Aviemore with the hillwalking club. The girl had also been a member. He dropped off other pupils first and then asked the girl into his home claiming he was tired. Wilson made her dinner and gave her three glasses of wine. He went on to initially massage the girl, who described how she 'froze'. Wilson kissed the pupil and molested her. It was only later that she realised she was probably drunk at the time. The next day at school, Wilson spoke to the girl. He asked her to come back to his home that evening. Mr Stalker said: 'He said what happened was wrong due to her age and him being a teacher. 'He was upset during this discussion and the girl felt sorry for him. 'But, he said it was her fault for inviting herself into his house.' He carried out another sex attack and then again implied she was to 'blame' for what happened. The abuse continued until the girl was aged around 18. He had given her a key to his home, but she could only visit when it was dark and no one was outside. She could also not wear perfume. The court heard the girl 'would often cry' when being preyed upon. Other attacks occurred during trips with the hillwalking club including to Ben Nevis. The victim did not tell anyone until many years later when she was married. It was a newspaper article in 2021 about Wilson's abuse of the three schoolboys over a near 20-year period which saw her go to police. Wilson had been struck off as a teacher in 2011 following a probe into his behaviour, but it was a decade later before he was convicted in a criminal court. Lady Drummond adjourned this latest case for reports. Get all the latest news from around the country Follow STV News Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country
Scottish Sun
a day ago
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- Scottish Sun
Pervert teacher back behind bars after admitting abuse of pupil
Wilson was jailed for three years in 2021 for the serial abuse of three boys PERV SIR CAGED Pervert teacher back behind bars after admitting abuse of pupil A FORMER teacher is back behind bars after admitting to the repeated abuse of a then pupil. Andrew Wilson preyed on the teenage girl in the early 1980s which often had her in tears. 2 Wilson today pleaded guilty at the High Court in Glasgow Credit: Andrew Barr The now 78 year-old a was a Latin teacher at the time at a secondary in Angus as well as the leader of the school's hillwalking club. Wilson was jailed for three years in 2021 for the serial abuse of three boys. It was media reports of that case which led this latest victim to also bravely go to police and report her ordeal from 40 years ago. Wilson today pleaded guilty at the High Court in Glasgow to the repeated indecent assault of the then girl between 1981 and 1984. The pervert pensioner had been on bail, but he was remanded in custody pending sentencing next month. Prosecutor Adrian Stalker today told the court: "The incidents of sexual abuse took place without the consent of the girl. "He groomed her over several years during which time he indecently assaulted her continuously." The young victim was said to have had a troubled home-life at the time. Mr Stalker: "Wilson took advantage of the girl's vulnerability and his position as a teacher." Wilson first struck after returning from a trip to Aviemore with the hillwalking club. Police raid largest spice vapes operation after kids were left hospitalised The girl had also been a member. He dropped off other pupils first and then asked the girl into his home claiming he was tired. Wilson made her dinner and gave her three glasses of wine. He went on to initially massage the girl, who described how she "froze". Wilson kissed the pupil and molested her. It was only later that she realised she was probably drunk at the time. The next day at school, Wilson spoke to the girl. He asked her to come back to his home that evening. Mr Stalker: "He said what happened was wrong due to her age and him being a teacher. "He was upset during this discussion and the girl felt sorry for him. "But, he said it was her fault for inviting herself into his house." He carried out another sex attack and then again implied she was to "blame" for what happened. The abuse continued until the girl was aged around 18. He had given her a key to his home, but she could only visit when it was dark and no one was outside. She could also not wear perfume. The court heard the girl "would often cry" when being preyed upon. Other attacks occurred during trips with the hillwalking club including to Ben Nevis. The victim did not tell anyone until many years later when she was married. It was a newspaper article in 2021 about Wilson's abuse of the three schoolboys over a near 20-year period which saw her go to police. Wilson had been struck off as a teacher in 2011 following a probe into his behaviour, but it was a decade later before he was convicted in a criminal court. Lady Drummond adjourned this latest case for reports.
The Herald Scotland
2 days ago
- General
- The Herald Scotland
Former teacher back behind bars for abuse of then pupil
The now 78-year-old was a Latin teacher at the time at a secondary in Angus as well as the leader of the school's hillwalking club. Wilson was jailed for three years in 2021 for the serial abuse of three boys. It was media reports of that case which led this latest victim to also bravely go to police and report her ordeal from 40 years ago. Wilson today pleaded guilty at the High Court in Glasgow to the repeated indecent assault of the then girl between 1981 and 1984. The pervert pensioner had been on bail, but he was remanded in custody pending sentencing next month. READ MORE: Prosecutor Adrian Stalker today told the court: "The incidents of sexual abuse took place without the consent of the girl. "He groomed her over several years during which time he indecently assaulted her continuously." The young victim was said to have had a troubled home-life at the time. Mr Stalker: "Wilson took advantage of the girl's vulnerability and his position as a teacher." Wilson first struck after returning from a trip to Aviemore with the hillwalking club. The girl had also been a member. He dropped off other pupils first and then asked the girl into his home claiming he was tired. Wilson made her dinner and gave her three glasses of wine. He went on to initially massage the girl, who described how she "froze". Wilson kissed the pupil and molested her. It was only later that she realised she was probably drunk at the time. The next day at school, Wilson spoke to the girl. He asked her to come back to his home that evening. Mr Stalker: "He said what happened was wrong due to her age and him being a teacher. "He was upset during this discussion and the girl felt sorry for him. "But, he said it was her fault for inviting herself into his house." He carried out another sex attack and then again implied she was to "blame" for what happened. The abuse continued until the girl was aged around 18. He had given her a key to his home, but she could only visit when it was dark and no one was outside. She could also not wear perfume. The court heard the girl "would often cry" when being preyed upon. Other attacks occurred during trips with the hillwalking club including to Ben Nevis. The victim did not tell anyone until many years later when she was married. It was a newspaper article in 2021 about Wilson's abuse of the three schoolboys over a near 20-year period which saw her go to police. Wilson had been struck off as a teacher in 2011 following a probe into his behaviour, but it was a decade later before he was convicted in a criminal court. Lady Drummond adjourned this latest case for reports.
Spectator
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Spectator
‘Sitting the 11-plus was the most momentous event of my life'
Geoff Dyer, eh? Geoff Bloody Dyer – without doubt one of contemporary Eng. Lit.'s most successful, intellectually playful and stylistically distinctive voices. His extraordinary oeuvre spans fiction, non-fiction, memoir, criticism and genre-defying hybrids, often likened – I don't know by who, but by me at least now – to greats such as W.G. Sebald or Roland Barthes. Dyer expertly navigates the tricky territory between high culture and everyday experience, balancing erudition with comic digression in books ranging from Out of Sheer Rage (a hilarious study of not writing a book about D.H. Lawrence) to But Beautiful (a genre-blending and largely non-irritating meditation on jazz) to Zona (a mercifully unpretentious personal exegesis of Stalker, the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky's masterpiece). He skilfully dismantles conventional boundaries between the subject and the self, between artist and critic, forever restlessly inquiring into the nature of literary form and identity… Basically, Geoff Dyer went and did it. He got there first: modest, funny, clever, inventive. He is the deracinated writer's deracinated writer. And now he's done it again with Homework, which is a memoir about growing up in post-war England and is exactly the kind of memoir just about anyone who grew up in post-war England might want to write. Born in 1958 and brought up in Cheltenham, Dyer's was an archetypal mid-to-late-20th-century English childhood. Two up, two down? Check. Outside toilet? Check. Mum a dinner lady? Check. Dad a manual worker? Check. Odd and interesting aunts and uncles? Check. Fond memories of playing war with your friends on the estate? Check. And Airfix models, comics, bubblegum cards, conkers, the little drinks cabinet with drinks that no one drank, Robinson Crusoe on the telly, the corner shops, the tinkers and blade sharpeners who used to come to the door, verrucas, the buzzer in the doctor's surgery, Action Man, heaped spoons of sugar in your tea and coffee? Check, check, check, check.
Metro
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Stalker Legends Of The Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition review
The original three Stalker games are remastered for consoles and PC, so the classic mix of first person shooter and survival horror can thrill another generation. Hollywood has an increasing addiction to remakes and sequels. Disney's creatively bereft live action remakes, the endless retellings of Spider-Man's origin story, and the unstoppable juggernaut of Mission: Impossible films have clearly inspired the games industry, which although not yet on the same scale, has recently seen a noticeable uptick in the recycling of familiar intellectual property. In the interests of preserving video games as interactive art, remasters of older titles is perfectly welcome. With a graphical refresh and improved controls, a well-constructed remaster can bring creaky old games back to life in a way that more closely resembles our memories of them – more so than actually playing the original would. That was certainly the case for Oblivion Remastered. Its raft of subtle upgrades made it a more engaging experience without losing any of its character and idiosyncrasy. Fortunately, the same is true for S.T.A.L.K.E.R., a franchise made by Ukrainian developer, GSC Game World, that emerged in the early 2000s and which recently saw the release of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2. The first in the series, Shadow Of Chornobyl, came out in 2007. It's a wonderfully bleak first person shooter-meets-survival horror, set in a fictional version of the irradiated exclusion zone surrounding the non-fictional nuclear reactor that exploded in the 1980s. Infused with mutants, lethal supernatural anomalies, and bands of marauding humans, your time in the zone is at least as much about staying alive as it is about exploration and trading. It remains a real period piece, its menu system built around a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) a device that was instantly made obsolete by the launch of the iPhone, also in 2007. You use your simulated PDA to check the map, quest objectives, and rank as a stalker – which to start with has you right at the very bottom. Beginning the game with no memory of who you are or how you got into the zone, all you know is that you have S.T.A.L.K.E.R. tattooed on your arm and a mission to 'kill Strelok'. What you do next is entirely up to you. There's a scattering of people around, who you discover belong to different factions, and completing missions for them or killing their members goes on to affect your reputation with each group. More worrying are the aggressive mutated beasts you meet, whose howls and grunts are especially unnerving when experienced nearby in the dead of simulated Ukrainian night. They remain at least as disturbing in the Enhanced Edition, which brings upscaled textures and character models, re-rendered cut scenes, and more generous auto-aim. However, like Oblivion, you still couldn't mistake it for a modern video game. Muddy colours, stilted conversations, cruelly rarified ammo supplies, and the lack of pointers about what you should be doing or how to complete even rudimentary tasks, hark back to a less sophisticated era. They're also instrumental in creating the game's atmosphere of authentically unsmiling post-Soviet grimness, something that was also deployed to excellent effect in the Metro franchise, a series created with the help of several developers who cut their teeth on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. The game's inherent clunkiness is part of that ambience and even though there's now a weapon wheel, that makes swapping guns and equipment more convenient, and competent use of the DualSense's adaptive triggers and speaker, it remains true to its origins, which is to say it's still awkward and often dismally dark. It's astounding how much its prequel, Clear Skies differs, despite coming out only a year later. There's an evident graphical leap forward, but its biggest change is that it drops the survival horror in favour of a focus on warfare amongst groups of human survivors, complete with a page in your PDA that portrays each faction's comparative manpower and equipment level as a set of power bars. You work for Clear Sky, who are researching the zone, hoping to harness some of its weird properties on behalf of wider humanity. It's a more optimistic and less oppressive milieu than Shadow Of Chornobyl, despite notionally occupying the same setting. Ammo's plentiful, you can modify weapons to make them less appallingly imprecise, and there's even a fast travel system, something notable for its absence in the first game. Despite all these helpful changes, and the improved graphics, it's a less satisfying game to play, lacking much of the character that made the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. such a singular and unsettling experience. So it's a relief that Call Of Pripyat sees a return to its forbidding, more merciless roots. It abandons the factional power bars, letting your influence or infamy with each group unfold in a more organic and fulfilling manner. More Trending It also delivers another graphical improvement over Clear Skies, despite again being released just a year later, retaining and building on its weapons mods. That's useful because even by the third game gunplay is punishingly inaccurate, with weapons' wooden handling and tinny sound effects contributing to a general sense of flimsiness. Upgrades help mitigate that, if only in the effectiveness department, but they still sound and seem laughably puny. On the other hand, each gun has its own distinct strengths, with every mod you add palpably affecting the gameplay. With the welcome return to a more survival horror flavour, the eerie atmosphere, augmented by more refined systems, makes this instalment feel as though it finally delivers on the promise of the original. Taken together, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. trilogy is a showcase for the talents of GSC World, and a fascinatingly unique take on first person shooters. Despite the fact that it's riddled with what, in most games, would be considered flaws, once you slip into its rhythms and unusual sensibilities, there's still nothing quite like it. Apart from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 that is, which the company managed to release at the end of last year despite working under Russian occupation. In Short: A spruced up, lightly streamlined refresh of the classic Ukrainian shooter-meets-survival horror series that retains every bit of its uncompromisingly bleak character and individuality. Pros: The weapons wheel reduces fiddly menu work and the graphical makeover adds to the deliberately grim atmosphere, which remains the game's strongest suit. Cons: Still fairly clumsy feeling, with gunplay lacking finesse. Very little that you need to do is explained properly. Score: 7/10 Formats: PlayStation 5 (reviewed), Xbox Series X/S, and PCPrice: £32.99 for the trilogy or £15.99 each – free for existing owners of the gamesPublisher: GSC Game WorldDeveloper: GSC Game WorldRelease Date: 20th May 2025 Age Rating: 16 Email gamecentral@ leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader's Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. 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