‘I was looking for butter stains.’

A housemaster accused of molesting two pupils at a top independent boys school claims he was looking for butter on a boy’s trousers when he touched his leg, a court heard. Dr Geoffrey Plow, 59, allegedly groped a 13-year-old in full view of his classmates during German lessons at £18,400-a-year University College School (UCS), in Frognal, Hampstead. Prosecutors claim Dr Plow’s hand was ‘drawn’ to the boy’s bottom, which he is said to have felt on ‘many occasions’ between 1999…

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