Abuse probe teacher is accused of racist slurs

Black child targeted and garden hose used to assault boy of six, inquiry told

- MARCELLO MEGA

A TOP private school linked to allegations of serious sexual abuse has now been accused of racist bullying.

A former Edinburgh Academy pupil told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry yesterday of the distressing racist abuse of a child by a "demonic" teacher already accused of extreme brutality.

Giles Moffat, 51, is one of a group of Academy survivors that includes the broadcaster Nicky Campbell.

Yesterday Giles told how one teacher, John Brownlee, dished out sadistic violence and racially abused one boy aged around nine.

He said: "He never used his name. It was always "n****r."

Giles told how on his first night at Edinburgh Academy, aged eight in 1978, the housemaster entered his shared dormitory and ordered some boys to follow him upstairs to a room with a snooker table.