A FORMER teacher has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two girls who were his pupils when he was headmaster of a Burton-in-Kendal primary school.

Ian Glover, 63, of The Green, Lindal-in-Furness, is now facing the prospect of a second long prison sentence – almost exactly ten years after he was jailed for three years for committing similar offences with a different girl.

Glover was convicted at Carlisle Crown Court today of 23 indecent assaults on one of the girls and one on the other.

All the offences were committed when he was head of Burton Morewood school in the 1990s.

Glover had pleaded not guilty to all the charges, saying that both girls had fabricated their allegations against him.

After the jury’s unanimous verdicts he was remanded in custody.

He will be sentenced tomorrow.

Judge Paul Batty QC warned him to expect a long sentence because some of the offences of which he was convicted were even more serious than those that brought him a three-year sentence in 2001.

During the trial last week one of his victims, who is now grown up, told the jury he had molested her about once a week for three years.

The other said he had rubbed his body against hers while he was massaging her shoulders during a sports practice.

In evidence he denied doing anything wrong, but admitted being a “tactile” teacher, who would put his arm around children or sit them on his knee if they needed comforting.

“Nowadays that is an absolute ‘no no’, but in those days it was acceptable,” he said.