Former Granada Reports weatherman Fred Talbot has been found guilty of molesting boys while working as a teacher at Altrincham Grammar School.
Talbot, who lives in Bowdon, was today found guilty by a jury at Minshull Street Crown Court of indecently assaulting two teenage boys.
The 65-year-old was cleared of eight other indecent assault charges. He has been remanded in custody and will be sentenced on March 12th.
Watch as Talbot denies diary sex claims in three-minute police interview
The offences related to his time as a science teacher at Altrincham Grammar, where he worked between 1974 and 1984.
The court heard how, during the mid-70s, a boy of 14 or 15 was made to share a bed with Talbot on a school trip on a canal boat, and was indecently assaulted by Talbot.
Below: Fred Talbot’s police mugshot
It’s now been revealed that the victim first reported the crime to police in 1992. Talbot was interviewed and denied the offence, and due to a lack of corroborative evidence no further action was taken.
In 1977 another victim, who was 14 or 15 at the time, went on another school trip on a canal barge. One evening Talbot got into the boy’s bed naked and sexually assaulted him.
Detective Constable Chris Doggart said: “Talbot was an extremely popular and well liked individual – both as a celebrity weatherman and formerly as a science teacher – who earned not only the trust and adulation of many of his peers and pupils, but also much of the nation.
“Now he has been exposed as an opportunistic sex offender and that reputation is rightly in tatters.
“Even when he was not committing offences against the two vulnerable young boys, his behaviour was wholly inappropriate and so far removed from his duty as a teacher to nurture and safeguard those under his care it really does defy belief.”
Read Talbot’s damning diaries as it’s revealed he left Altrincham Grammar for propositioning boys
Below: Pictures of Talbot on canal trips during his time as a teacher at Altrincham Grammar
