Nicky Campbell said that he wept in his wife’s arms after a judge ruled his former teacher carried out a series of violent attacks on him and other pupils over a 20-year period.
John Brownlee, now 89, regularly assaulted children with various implements including a wooden bat called a clacken, a snooker cue and a golf club while he taught at Edinburgh Academy, a court ruled.
Brownlee also choked several young boys and ordered them to sit in freezing cold baths and punished them by making them dig in a garden without the proper clothing in cold weather, all between 1967 and 1987.
His violent behaviour was first reported by The Sunday Times after a number of former pupils came forward to allege he was
