A 64-year-old woman woke her partner in the night to ask if he loved her and plunged a steak knife into his head when he said no.
25.01.2024 - 13:08 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A high school teacher is facing jail after sending a 15-year-old girl sexual Snapchat messages and seedy photos, and trying to entice her to go to a hotel with him.
James Connal, 31, a maths teacher at Larbert High School, Stirlingshire, groomed the girl while giving her private tuition at her home.
She was not a pupil at his own school, and he had been given her phone number so lesson times could be arranged.
A jury at Falkirk Sheriff Court heard that his contacts with the girl "started out innocently enough but within a couple of weeks had developed into something that was anything but innocent".
Connal began to text her throughout the day, including during school hours, telling her she was "pretty", that he "looked forward to seeing her", and then asked her to go away with him and stay in a hotel in Edinburgh with him.
He added her on Snapchat and sent her selfies of himself topless and with his hand down his trousers, messaged asking if she "wanted to see something hard", and texted to ask if he could put his hand down her top.
She said in evidence he had tried to kiss her on two occasions when he turned up for maths lessons, and he had also told her to delete some of the messages he had sent.
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