Police investigating more incidents of alleged abuse involving the TV weatherman Fred Talbot have submitted a report to Scottish prosecutors.
Talbot, 65, is due to be sentenced today in Manchester after a jury found him guilty of indecently assaulting two pupils at Altrincham Grammar School for Boys in the mid-1970s during his former career as a biology teacher. The Scottish allegations are said to relate to events over a 13-year period, from 1968 to 1981.
The report was received from Police Scotland yesterday and is being considered by the procurator fiscal.
A statement from the Crown Office in Scotland said: “The procurator fiscal has received a report relating to incidents involving a 65-year-old man, said to have occurred between January 1968 and January 1981. The report is currently under consideration by the procurator fiscal.”
Talbot was remanded in custody after the jury in England found him guilty of indecently assaulting the school pupils. Both the victims, who were said to be 14 or 15 at the time, were assaulted on school canal barge trips in the Cheshire area in the mid-1970s.
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Talbot resigned in disgrace from the school in 1984 after making indecent comments to two 15-year-old pupils but hid the indiscretion when his big TV break came a year later. He became a weatherman for This Morning on ITV in 1988.
He continued to cover his tracks when police first investigated him in 1992 and lied again to detectives when they uncovered diaries that were littered with references to sexual encounters.
After he was convicted at Manchester Minshull Street crown court, it emerged that he was also the subject of a historical abuse inquiry by police into complaints about offences said to have been committed in Scotland.