Teacher jailed for abusing boys at top Scots school
A FORMER teacher at two of Scotland's top boarding schools has been jailed for more than six years for sexually abusing a string of boys.
Bill Bain, a former teacher at Keil School, has been jailed for abusing pupils
Bill Bain, who was head of electronics at £22,000-a-year Glenalmond College in Perthshire, was suspended immediately when the allegations emerged.
The 62-year-old was accused by five boys of abusing them when he was a housemaster at the now-defunct Keil School in Dumbarton between 1989 and 1995.
The pervert was finally caught last year when one sickened victim discovered his abuser was still teaching and called police.
At the High Court in Glasgow yesterday, Bain was jailed for six-and-a-half years after pleading guilty to five charges of using lewd and libidinous practices while employed as a teacher.
Judge Lady Scott told him the crimes were "persistent" sexual abuse and that he appeared to not have any "contrition" for what he had done.
She said the jail term had been cut from eight-and-a-half years due to his guilty pleas.
Shamed Bain - who lived with his mother in Crieff, Perthshire - did not show any emotion as he was led handcuffed to the cells.
The 62-year-old was accused by five boys of abusing them between 1989 and 1995
He had been a teacher at Keil - one of Scotland's leading fee-paying schools, which closed in 2000 - and was subsequently promoted to housemaster.
He is a dangerous predator
Bain targeted boys in an empty classroom, a photography dark-room and in his private flat at the school.
The first boy was aged 11 when the abuse started. The next victim was a year older when Bain began molesting him several times-a-week.
Around the same time, Bain repeatedly preyed on a third boy, who was also 11 when the predator first pounced.
The fourth pupil was the same age as he was abused a total of 50 times.
Prosecutor, Ross McFarlane said the final victim - aged 12 - had spoken because he was being bullied at the school.
Bain left the Keil in 2000 and moved to exclusive Glenalmond College, which counts actor Robbie Coltrane, ex-Scotland rugby captain David Sole and the late newsreader Sandy Gall as former pupils.
After the hearing last month, a spokesperson for Glenalmond said Bain had been "immediately suspended" when the accusations first arose.
The statement went on: "Police Scotland made us aware of allegations of a child protection nature made against a former member teaching staff.
"These related to his previous employment and were not in connection with Glenalmond College."
Detective Inspector Grant MacLeod, who helped bring Bain to justice, last night said: "He is a dangerous predator ."