A RETIRED primary school teacher told a jury he never behaved inappropriately in a sexual way towards children in the 1980s.

Gerald King, 66, gave evidence today at his trial at Glasgow Sheriff Court where he denied all of the allegations made by a string of former pupils from the school in the north of Glasgow.

The claims included him exposing himself and asking a schoolboy if he wanted to touch him, touching himself in front of another player and stripping off in front of another.

King admitted taking two pictures of a boy with no clothes on in February 1987.

In one picture, the boy is with three other team mates in a shower after they won the league at another school in, but he claimed they were innocently taken.

The pensioner, from Springburn, is accused of using lewd and libidinous practices and behaviour towards four boys and two girls between August 1984 and April 1989.

He also faces a charge of taking or permitting to be taken, indecent images of children in February 1987 at Glenconner Park, Glasgow.

King said he was a teacher from 1976 until he retired last year.

He told that he was the football coach at the Glasgow school in the 1980s.

Defence counsel Gavin Anderson asked: “To be clear, did you, at any time during the relevant period, between 1984 and 1989, behave inappropriately in any sexual way towards any child?”

King replied: “No.”

The trial before sheriff Johanna Johnston QC continues.