The trial of a music trainer accused of sexually assaulting eight teenage pupils at a sequence of secondary colleges throughout Central Scotland started right this moment with a declare from one ex-pupil that the peripatetic guitar teacher had advised him to calm down if he was battling a passage by having solo intercourse.
Keith Jenner, 56, taught the teenager from the time he was in second yr in 2017 till 2020 when the teenager left college initially of the Covid epidemic.
The teenager, now 18, advised Falkirk Sheriff Court docket that Jenner had made "feedback about masturbation" to him "two or thrice" as they sat collectively within the 4ft by 12ft music room at his college, which can't be recognized.
He advised a jury: "If I used to be getting a bit uptight, if I used to be battling the music, he'd say 'You must go house and have a w*** to calm down'."
He mentioned Jenner would additionally contact the within of his thigh, "transferring his hand a wee bit", for 10 to fifteen seconds.
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He advised prosecutor Katie Cunningham: "It would not be each lesson, nevertheless it occurred sufficient.
"It typically occurred if it was simply me - if one of many different boys was off.
"I believe he tried to disguise it as a comforting factor, if I used to be battling a chunk of music, to console me, nevertheless it wasn't good."
He mentioned it made him really feel "uncomfortable, a bit uneasy" and if he knew he was to be alone with Jenner at a lesson he could be "type of dreading it a wee bit".
He mentioned he tried to sit down additional away from Jenner consequently.
He added, "But it surely wasn't a really large room."
Along with alleged sexual assaults, Jenner, employed by Falkirk Council, is alleged to have directed "sexual verbal communications" at youngsters, and proven two schoolboys a video of a part-naked girl.
The incidents are mentioned to have taken place over a interval of greater than three years - between January 1st 2017 and January twenty ninth 2020 - at 4 excessive colleges in Stirlingshire and one within the geographical space of West Lothian.
He's mentioned to have sexually assaulted 4 schoolgirls aged 15 and 16, and 4 schoolboys, aged 13 to fifteen, by touching them on the physique.
He's mentioned to have proven a video that includes "a partially-clothed feminine" to 2 of the allegedly-assaulted boys, aged 14 and 15.
Two different youngsters, a boy and a lady, each 16 on the time, had been allegedly focused by Jenner with sexual feedback "for the needs of acquiring sexual gratification or of humiliating, distressing or alarming them", however are usually not mentioned to have been really sexually assaulted.
Jenner, of Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire, who's represented by Mark Stewart QC, denies a complete of 12 expenses - eight of sexual assault, two of directing a sexual communication with out consent, and two of coercion into a sexual picture.
The courtroom heard it was a matter of settlement that Jenner, because the EIS instructing union rep for music instructors within the Falkirk space, had been instrumental in getting glass panels fitted in music room doorways.
The trial, earlier than Sheriff Derek Hamilton and jury, continues.