Fred Talbot ‘assaulted me during school camp’

A man has told the trial of former TV weatherman Fred Talbot that he felt “shocked” and “repulsed” after being indecently assaulted in his tent on a school camping trip as a teenager.

The witness told a jury he “froze” after Talbot, then a teacher at his school, carried out the night time assault during an excursion to the south of Scotland in 1979.

“I thought this a betrayal of trust by somebody I regarded as a friend,” the man told Lanark Sheriff Court.

Mr Talbot, 67, is on trial accused of indecently assaulting several teenage boys on school trips to Scotland.

He denies lewd, indecent and libidinous practices and behaviour towards a boy aged 12 on a trip.