Fred The Weatherman found guilty of sexually assaulting two teenage boys

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...nage-boys.html

BREAKING NEWS: Former TV weatherman Fred Talbot is found GUILTY of sexually abusing teenage boys

- This Morning star attacked boys twice on school trips on a canal boat
- Weatherman was 'obsessed' with boys and would abuse them while drunk
- Talbot was cleared of eight other indecent assaults on three other boys
- Stone Roses singer Ian Brown was a star witness for the prosecution
- Talbot showed his class gay porn and urged them to ********** at home

Television weatherman Fred Talbot has today been convicted of abusing two schoolboys.

The former This Morning star attacked the teenagers on school trips on a canal boat while he was teaching in the 1970s and now faces jail.

However Talbot, who taught at Altrincham Grammar School near Manchester, was cleared of eight other indecent assaults on three other boys.

Talbot, 65, a regular on the floating weather map in Liverpool's Albert Dock for ITV's top-rating This Morning show, was said by the prosecution to be 'a chancer' who used his 'boundless energy' and 'extrovert personality' to gain the affection and trust of his victims.

The jury at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court cleared him of assaulting three boys but found him guilty of assaults on two boys.

Talbot was said to have been 'obsessed' with teenage boys throughout his teaching career and 'could not help himself' around them when under the influence of drink.

Talbot was remanded in custody and to be sentenced on March 13.

Judge Timothy Mort said he did not require pre-sentencing reports but told Talbot his sentence should start today bearing in mind his 'abuse of trust'.

Talbot was passive as the foreman read out the verdicts. He looked slightly surprised as he was told he was to be remanded in custody and nodded to the jurors before he left the dock.

Among the prosecution witnesses at the trial were The Stone Roses singer Ian Brown who said Talbot gave ************ practice as homework.

Brown said he remembered two or three biology lessons given by Talbot when he was an 11-year-old boy.

The witness said: 'Very early at school, I would not have been there a long time, Mr Talbot asked all the class if any of us had ever **********d.

'He went on to explain how to **********, how you should ********** and the following lesson he asked who had **********d.'

Brown said Talbot also showed a gay porn film in another class.

Prosecutor Neil Usher put it to the defendant that he was 'a weak man who regularly drank too much'.

This led to him being tempted by boys in his care and regularly trying it on with them, he said.

Mr Usher said Talbot's modus operandi was to first establish his 'good guy credentials' and then to break down the proper teacher-pupil boundaries, leaving his victims confused as made his advances.

What the ****. Always remember watching him on Granada at the Albert Dock when I was a kid on that little island of the British Isles.

One good one I have heard so far is that bet he didn't forecast that. Though I bet there's more to follow.....

Over to you.

[xxMATTGxx]

Such a shame, always remember seeing him on his island doing the weather when I was young. I guess you never know what people are really like these days.

[xxMATTGxx]

[MilksAreUs]

Absolutely shocking. Always really liked Fred and thought his accusations would be false, however the law has proved many of us wrong. Despicable.

[David]

tbf he does look like an offender so not really surprising

[Johannes]

I don't really know who it is, but that's just horrible. Think of all the boys that have been offended by this guy, it'll traumatize them for the rest of their lives.

[RyRy]

Fact is, if you've nothing to hide then you don't say no comment. If you can justify everything with an alibi then you're clear, but these incidents happened years and years ago so... yeah. I dunno.

[xxMATTGxx]

Fact is, if you've nothing to hide then you don't say no comment. If you can justify everything with an alibi then you're clear, but these incidents happened years and years ago so... yeah. I dunno.

He failed and slipped up at that in regards of the handwriting part haha

[AgnesIO]

I love how he has to think about his answer each time, to then say "no comment" 30 times.

Also, why on earth is ********** filtered? Not exactly a rude word lol