FIVE men face allegations of abusing pupils at a school that was run by the Christian Brothers.
John Farrell, 72, Paul Kelly, 62, Edward Egan, 77, Michael Murphy, 75, and William Don, 61, made their first public appearance in the dock
yesterday (thur) at the High Court in Glasgow.
They are accused of physically and sexually abusing boys at the former St Ninian's School in Falkland, Fife between 1970 and 1983.
The 23-page indictment lists 131 charges involving more than 40 alleged victims.
The five accused each not guilty at the hearing to the allegations they face between them.
The catholic school was run the Christian Brothers organisation until St Ninian's closed in the 1980s.
Prosecutors allege a number of sexual attacks took place against pupils there.
Amongst others claims is an accusation that Kelly left a young boy rolled up in a rug overnight.
He is also said to have hung another pupil upside down from a bridge.
Farrell faces another charge that in the early 1980s, he indecently assaulted a boy at a monastery on the isle of Iona.
He is further said to have attacked the same alleged victim at a catholic church in Motherwell in 1999.
Judge Lord Turnbull adjourned until a further hearing in July.
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