assaulting teenage schoolgirls with his drumsticks, subjecting a sixth-form girl to sex-talk, and engaging in a months-long "illicit affair" with a 17-year-old girl pupil. James Clark, a former cowhand who joined the services when he was 20 and rose to be chief instructor for pipes and drums for the entire British Army, had taught drumming at the "traditional" Perthshire school since 2012.