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.

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 ...

The victim, seen here, was beaten with a baseball bat during a fight over a dog, cops said. Tomas E. Gaston. The suspect went to his car and came back with a wooden bat — and the two men began ...