A pervert driving teacher has been snared for sexually assaulting teenage learners for a second time – after extra victims got here ahead following press protection.
Findlay Munro was positioned on the Sex Offenders Register for twenty-four months final yr after he admitted concentrating on two 17-year-old women whereas giving them street classes in Edinburgh.
Munro, 63, touched and rubbed the ladies on the legs and made vile sexual feedback to them throughout driving classes between December 2020 and August 2021.
But following press protection of the assaults, three extra feminine victims then reported Munro’s inappropriate behaviour in direction of them whereas he taught them to drive. The teacher was working for the Red Driving School when he sexually assaulted an additional two 17-year-old women and made inappropriate sexual feedback to a girl whereas they drove by way of a number of streets within the Capital.
Munro, from Baberton, Edinburgh, pleaded responsible to 4 sexual offences when he appeared on the metropolis’s sheriff court final month and he was again within the dock for sentencing on Thursday, September 21.
Solicitor Steven Donald, defending, instructed the court docket the brand new offences predated his consumer’s offences from final yr and that he was “making sufficient progress” on his present order. Mr Donald added that Munro, who had been a driving teacher for 11 years, was partaking with the intercourse offenders rehab programme CISSO and the brand new circumstances “arose due to press coverage” of final yr’s court docket case. The lawyer stated Munro was at present deemed not match to hold out unpaid work resulting from a critical medical situation identified final yr.
Sheriff John Cook described Munro’s behaviour as “a breach of trust” and ordered him to be positioned on a restriction of liberty order for the following six months. Munro can be compelled to put on an digital tagging system and keep along with his home between 7pm and 7am as a substitute for a custodial sentence. Sheriff Cook additionally positioned Munro on the Sex Offenders Register for 5 years.
Munro pleaded responsible to prices of repeatedly touching a 17-year-old woman on her leg with out her consent and assaulting a second teenage sufferer by touching her leg on numerous roads in Edinburgh between 2014 and 2016. Munro additionally prompted one of many 17-year-old women to listen to a sexual verbal communication, see a sexual written communication and make inappropriate remarks to her throughout classes.
He additionally admitted to a cost of creating feedback about her look on a social media website between September 2015 and April 2016. Munro additionally pleaded responsible to creating sexual feedback to a feminine learner by making inappropriate feedback in direction of her and commenting on her bodily look between December 2019 and March 2020.
