SCOTLAND
The Times
David Love
May 27 2017
The Times
A former priest has been found guilty of assault to injury of a pupil at a Catholic boarding school more than 30 years ago.
Thomas Seed, 83, faced another five charges, all of which the jury found not proven by a majority.
Fining Seed £1,000, Sheriff Gordon Fleetwood said: “I am obliged to deal with you by the law that applied when the offence was committed. You were in a position of trust and you abused that.”
Also known as Father Benedict, Seed belted a young private schoolboy until his wrists bled at the Fort Augustus Abbey boarding school on the shores of Loch Ness.
Paul Curran, 50, now a businessman in Hong Kong, told a jury at Inverness sheriff court that he “lived in fear” of the Benedictine monk. Mr Curran said that after being caught swearing by the monk he was belted with a tawse, which left his hands and wrists bleeding, swollen and bruised.
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