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| Fred Talbot: Former ITV weatherman jailed for four years for sexually abusing boys on camping trip | Fred Talbot: Former ITV weatherman jailed for four years for sexually abusing boys on camping trip |
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| Former TV weatherman Fred Talbot has been sentenced to four years in jail for a string of sex offences against schoolboys on trips to Scotland more than three decades ago. | Former TV weatherman Fred Talbot has been sentenced to four years in jail for a string of sex offences against schoolboys on trips to Scotland more than three decades ago. |
| The 67-year-old indecently assaulted seven teenage boys in his care during camping and boating trips in the 1970s and 1980s while working as a biology teacher at a school in the Manchester area. | The 67-year-old indecently assaulted seven teenage boys in his care during camping and boating trips in the 1970s and 1980s while working as a biology teacher at a school in the Manchester area. |
| The offences took place on separate occasions during visits to the St Mary's Loch area near Moffat in Dumfries and Galloway and the Caledonian canal near Inverness. | |
| During the nine day trial at Lanark Sheriff Court, the court heard "overwhelming and compelling evidence" against him, including from Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown – who was a pupil of his –and via video link from a witness in Australia. | |
| Talbot denied all the charges but the jury deliberated for just four hours before convicting him of seven of the nine historical counts against him on 25 May. | |
| Sentencing Talbot, Sheriff Nikola Stewart said the pupils that went on trips organised by Talbot had all trusted and liked the teacher. | |
| "They were all utterly unsuspecting of the sexual threat you posed," she told the former weatherman. | |
| Sheriff Stewart said he had "utter disregard" for his duties as a teacher and the boys he preyed on were "too embarrassed and disempowered" to report his "disgraceful behaviour". | |
| Dressed in a grey shirt and striped tie, Talbot was led down from the dock before being transported back to prison. | |
| He is already serving a five-year sentence have been convicted in March 2015 of indecent assault against two teenage boys at Altrincham Grammar School. | |
| The former TV personality became known for presenting This Morning's weather reports from a large floating map of the British Isles in the Albert Dock in Liverpool until production was moved to London. | |
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