Indecent assaults teacher guilty

A history teacher has been found guilty of 16 counts of indecent assault involving five pupils in the 1990s.

Steven Lively, of Swindon, Wilts, asked two former pupils of the school in Newbury, Berkshire, where he taught, to dress up in stockings and suspenders.

They told Reading Crown Court he drove them to secluded areas, where they indulged in sexual activity in his car.

An inquiry began after the ex-pupil revealed her liaison with Lively, who will be sentenced on 19 January.

The woman, now in her 20s, alleged last year that she had a relationship with a teacher.

The father-of-one - who was married at the time, but later divorced and remarried - was suspended from his senior post at the school, where he was still working.

He told me to say nothing or he could lose his job and his wife, I felt I had to do what he said One of Lively's victims

The five women told police about encounters ranging from "hugs" in a school cupboard to sex acts in Lively's car in the countryside.

One of his victims, who resisted his advances, said: "When I didn't respond, he looked thoroughly angry and told me to say nothing or he could lose his job and his wife.

"I felt I had to do what he said. What he said about losing his job and his wife made me feel it was my fault."

Lively denied all the allegations and had accused the women of "colluding" over their allegations.

The jury of six women and five men found Lively guilty of the string of indecent assaults on Friday.

He was bailed on the condition he surrenders his passport, reports daily to Swindon Police Station, does not visit Thatcham or Newbury or speak to prosecution witnesses.