A PAEDOPHILE music teacher is back behind bars for abusing two pupils at a private school.

Stephen Birch, 59, preyed on the young boys when he was alone with them at the school from when they were six and seven years old.

His first victim was touched inappropriately by Birch during private music lessons and when the teacher passed him in the corridor.

Creepy Birch targeted another pupil who was bullied and sat away from other children in a room on his own.

He told jurors: “I thought this was someone that actually cared about me.”

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The teacher, already a convicted sex offender, denied the charges but was convicted at Glasgow Sheriff Court of using lewd and libidinous practices between December 1997 and February 2001.

Giving evidence in the latest trial, one man now 27 who was abused, told the court: “He would often have his hand on my thigh as I was playing the piano.

The witness said Birch would also “grab and pat” him on the bottom before and after a lesson and when he passed him in the corridor.

A second 27-year-old told how he often sat away in a room from other pupils in the school.

He said Birch, who wasn’t his teacher, came in to see him on occasions to make sure he was okay and give him comfort.

The witness added: “I’m not sure how it came about, I remember being in various states of undress in front of the individual we have been speaking about.

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"He would get me to take my clothes off."

He said it happened “definitely more than once” and that Birch would “grope and fondle” parts of him.

Birch denied the allegations and was asked if the men were lying.

He said: “I’m saying that none of it is true.”

Passing sentence on Thursday, sheriff Martin Jones QC said: “You have been convicted by the jury of these two charges, both are serious.”

Birch blew a kiss to a woman in the public gallery as he was lead away to start his sentence.

The former teacher, from Maryhill, Glasgow was jailed for three years in 2012 at the High Court in Edinburgh after he admitted abusing a 13-year-old boy during a piano lesson at his house.

He pled guilty to carrying out the sexual assault in December 2011 and a charge of possessing indecent images of children.

He is already on the sex offenders' register indefinitely.