Teacher ‘assaulted pupil in classroom’

A teacher at a Catholic girls’ school sexually assaulted a teenage pupil in the classroom and at a Bryan Adams concert, a court heard. Philip McDermott, 59, arranged to meet up with the 15-year-old at the gig in the summer of 2016 as they were both fans of the Canadian chart topper. They sent each other the singer’s ‘romantic’ lyrics in emails as a way of saying what they wanted to do with each other, said prosecutor Szilvia Booker. McDermott,…