Sleazy Scots teacher told 16-year-old 'I would pay 20 quid to look up your skirt'

Nat McMullen pretended to spank another girl and pinned a third girl against a wall.

A shamed teacher who admitted making sleazy and inappropriate comments to eight pupils was today placed on the sex offenders register.

Maths teacher Nat McMullen's  victims at the Glasgow school where he taught were girls aged between 12 and 16.

Glasgow Sheriff Court heard he told a 16-year-old girl in front of her class: “I would pay 20 quid to look up your skirt,” pretended to spank another girl and pinned a third girl against a wall.

All his victims were upset and some broke into tears because of his conduct.

The court heard that McMullen, 70, retired in 2007, before returning to work in 2014.

His lawyer Nicholas Nimmo claimed that McMullen, who started his career as a teacher in 1972, had adapted his teaching style to the modern world.

Nimmo added: “He was trying to build a rapport and get street credibility.

“He was using the language that the pupils were using in the classroom.

“Part of his way of dealing with it was by the way of humour.”

McMullen suggested to another girl that she should sit on his knee which made her feel “extremely uncomfortable.”

He cornered a 12-year-old girl in a corridor and at one point touched her hip with his left hand to restrain her.

In a police interview, the girl said: “I felt petrified as teachers don’t put their hands on me.

“I wanted to move away from the wall and he wouldn’t let me move at all and that’s when I started crying as I got a fright and I froze.”

A support teacher said McMullen made other inappropriate comments to girls such as “Who wants to be my girlfriend?”

A 14-year-old was asked by McMullen to take off her shirt in one of his maths classes.

The girl said she was “embarrassed and humiliated” by McMullen’s comment.

Earlier that year, the same girl sprayed Victoria’s Secret perfume in one of McMullen’s classes.

He asked her if she also bought her underwear from Victoria’s Secret.

In August last year, a 15-year-old female student said McMullen came up behind her and squeezed her.

The court heard McMullen made other comments such as “You fancy me” and then asked a girl who dropped her homework if it was a “love letter for me?”

There were several complaints made to the school by the pupils and parents.

McMullen apologised and told them that he felt “unwell” and took a few days off work before resigning.

His wife was acting head teacher during some of the incidents.

Parents were “dissatisfied” with the way the complaints were dealt with by school staff.

McMullen was charged with conducting himself in a disorderly manner and repeatedly making gestures and uttering comments of an inappropriate and sexual nature towards the children.

Sheriff Alan Findlay deferred sentence on McMullen for reports until January next year.

McMullen, from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, was also put on the sex offenders register in the meantime.

After the hearing, one of the victim's parents hailed the ruling as a "victory for the kids."

They added: "He he has ruined a lot of children's lives - it’s a position of trust that he was in.

"You send your kids away to school thinking they are going to be safe.”