A teacher has been banned from the profession after sexually assaulting two teenage male pupils.
Andrew Beattie, a former science teacher at Selkirk High School in the Scottish Borders, was removed from the teaching register voluntarily after being jailed earlier this year for the offences which occurred during the 1990s.
The 62-year-old's actions only came to light when he was arrested in 2010 after more than 1,300 indecent images of children on his computer, the BBC reported. Some of the photographs were of young boys "only a few years old" performing sex acts with adult males, according to Scotland's Sex Offenders register.
Beattie admitted indecently assaulting a 14-year-old male and performing oral sex on a 15-year-old pupil on a "number of occasions" - all while he was working as a teacher, the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) heard.
At the time of his sentencing, the court was told the former teacher had been a victim of sexual abuse himself and had a "lifelong interest in pubescent boys".
As he was handed his sentence, Beattie was told by the presiding Sheriff, "You must understand the public revulsion that a teacher should possess such images", according to the Border Telegraph.
The Hawick resident had been "ostracised by his neighbours" and had had his car vandalised, Hawick News reported. He had also undergone "lifestyle changes" which included being baptised in his local Pentecostal Church.
Beattie was jailed for 16 months put on the sex offenders register for a decade.