School Priest Assaulted Pupil with Tawse

By David Love
The Times
May 27, 2017

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/school-priest-assaulted-pupil-with-tawse-pwt6v9qzk

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…