A FORMER Wirral teacher has denied sexual assaults against four teenage boys after a drunken Christmas party.
Robert Charles Durrant – who is on trial in Dorset – previously taught at Calday Grange School, in Wirral, as well as the Rydal Penrhos School and Ruthin School, North Wales.
Durrant, 60, who got married while teaching at Ruthin, is an English teacher at Milton Abbey School, Dorset, and has denied eight charges that are all alleged to have happened after a drunken Christmas party at Milton Abbey School on December 6.
He faces six charges of sexually assaulting four teenage boys and two further charges of battery that evening.
Durrant, of Milton Abbas, Blandford, told jurors at Dorchester Crown Court that he was very friendly with many of the boys he taught and that he would hug them and give them massages in a friendly way.
The trial continues.
