Neil Foden: Sex offender head teacher ‘ran the class with terror’

Foden taught Geraint Edwards, from Bethesda, at Ysgol Dyffryn Ogwen in the mid-1980s, and he said he was a bully back then.

“He got away with so much,” he said.

“The other teachers were afraid of him too, they didn’t step up and say anything about it.

“He’d grab you by the neck and shove you against the wall.”

Another former pupil, who did not want to be named, described Foden gripping his tie with his fist, pushing him, and said he was “a dirty man, a cruel man, and he got away with it for years”.

Others, whose names have been changed, include Peter, from Bethesda, who added: “He ran the class with terror.

“He grabbed me around the neck and put his thumb right into my neck until I choked.

“After grabbing my neck, he rammed me against a brass (door) handle which scratched my back.”

Vicky, also from Bethesda, described Foden making the lives of her and her brother hell, adding: “I moved school because of him.”

Judge Rowlands said Foden is facing a long prison sentence.

He will be sentenced on 1 July at Mold Crown Court.