John Brownlee regularly assaulted children with various implements including a wooden bat called a Clacken, a snooker cue and a golf club while he taught at the capital's Edinburgh Academy.

They are not only evident for the survivors of historic child abuse, some of whom now regularly pay emotional visits to the independent school on Henderson Row.

Kenneth said he was targeted for frequent, vicious beatings "usually with a sporting implement called a clacken which is like a large wooden bat". He described his time at the private school as ...

In his evidence, he also described an incident when Mr Brownlee was unable to find a clacken - which can be up to 18in (46cm) long. Instead, he inflicted a beating using a table tennis bat which ...

John Brownlee beat students at Edinburgh Academy with wooden bats and pushed one boy down a flight of stairs during a campaign of physical violence. Victims described the teacher, now 89, as a ...