Talbot asked my pal to sleep in his tent .. when he came back in he was in a state
Ian said. “We were told by Mr Talbot that it was cold and we’d need it.
“We were told to make sure we had some with us.”
Ian said that when his friend returned, he came back to their tent and tried to go to bed.
But he added: “Five minutes later Mr Talbot popped his head in and said: ‘I thought you were going to stay in my tent tonight?’” He said the boy then went with Talbot.
Ian said that next day, the group went for a walk. It was snowy and Talbotsuggestedputting snow in a boy’s pants.
He added: “We must have been naive. I think kids now would have beaten him up. You didn’t cross your teacher in those days.”
Ian said that on the minibus home, he was sitting behind Talbot and noticed he was looking at a pornographic magazine with another pupil.
He said that after the trip, he stopped listening to Talbot and failed biology because he “had no respect for him”.
Ian told Alan Gravelle, defending, that he left school before Talbot became famous but knew of his TV career because he was “on every night”.
Asked why he hadn’t come forward earlier, Ian said: “Every time I saw him on TV I told people this story. I’ve told hundreds of people the same as I’m telling you here.”
Mr Gravelle then asked if Ian ever tried to tell TV bosses about Talbot while appearing on music shows.
Ian replied: “What, break off from my band and tell a cameraman or something that the weatherman’s a nonce? It’s not realistic.”
Later, another witness told how Talbot got into his sleeping bag and touched him indecently on a boat trip on the Caledonian Canal in 1979, when he was 14 or 15. He believed Talbot was naked at the time.
The witness said he later went on other trips with Talbot, stayed in touch with him after leaving school and had him as a house guest twice.
He said he couldn’t explain why, and added: “I’m maybe a forgiving person.”
Talbot denies eight charges of indecently assaulting pupils aged 15 to 17 on trips to Scotland between 1978 and November 1981, and one count of lewd, indecent and libidinous behaviour in February 1978.
Six incidents are alleged to have happened on camping trips in Moffat, Dumfriesshire, and three during boat trips on the Caledonian Canal. The trial continues.