Former British TV weatherman jailed for child abuse
A former British television weatherman has been sentenced to five years in jail after he was found guilty of assaulting two teenage boys in his previous job as a teacher.
Fred Talbot, famous for presenting the forecast during the late 1980s and early 1990s, was convicted in February of indecent sex attacks on two 14-year-old schoolboys from Altrincham Grammar School, where he was a teacher in the 1970s.
During his trial on Friday at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court, 65-year-old Talbot was described as being “obsessed” with teenage boys.
While passing the verdict, Judge Timothy Mort told Talbot his jail term would start immediately considering his “abuse of trust.”
He said Talbot had “deliberately and indecently” assaulted the two pupils for his “own gratification.”
Detective chief inspector Graham Brock said, “Put simply, these offences reflect an abhorrent abuse of trust by a man who has proven to have no regard for the innocence of youth he was employed to nurture.”
Talbot’s abuse case is the latest in a series of British TV personalities detained for child abuse, including Australian entertainer, Rolf Harris, and former BBC presenter, Stuart Hall.
Britain has been rocked by a series of pedophile scandals in the last three years, which broke out after the death of the BBC’s former presenter, Jimmy Savile, who has been branded as one of UK’s most prolific known sexual predators.
Savile died in 2011 and following his death, hundreds of allegations of sex abuse and rape of minors became public.
Several high-profile figures have been arrested in connection with the multiple investigations into the abuse scandal surrounding the BBC’s former presenter.
British TV presenter, Rolf Harris, was sentenced to five years and nine months in prison over a string of sexual assaults on girls and young women.
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