SCOTLAND
BBC News
A former pupil of Fort Augustus Abbey school in the Highlands has told a court he was hit with a spiked golf shoe by a priest.
Clark Baxter, 51, accused Father Benedict Seed, 83, of hitting him “more than once” with the shoe.
Appearing under the name Thomas Michael Seed, he is charged with assaulting eight pupils in the 1970s and 1980s.
Father Seed, who is on trial at Inverness Sheriff Court, denies all the charges.
Mr Baxter, from the Wishaw area, told the court that he was frequently belted and caned by the former priest in his four years at school in Fort Augustus, which has since closed.
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