August 2023 Pervert driving instructor has been convicted of sexually assaulting more teenagers during lessons A pervert driving instructor has been convicted of sexually assaulting more teenagers during lessons after a fresh investigation. Findlay Munro preyed on young women learning to drive in Edinburgh, touching them and making inappropriate comments. Munro dodged a jail sentence last year after admitting targeting four victims while giving them lessons. The 63-year-old appeared at the city’s sheriff court on Wednesday to plead guilty to offences against a further four pupils. Two of the victims were just 17 when creepy Munro took advantage of being alone in a car with them. The court heard how he sexually assaulted the teens by touching their legs. Munro also made inappropriate comments to another two women while teaching them to drive. Sheriff John Cook deferred sentence until next month for reports. Munro appeared in court last September for sentencing after admitting the four earlier charges. He was given two years supervision with a conduct requirement to undertake “offence-focused work”. He was also put on the sex offenders register for two years. But the court heard on Wednesday how further offences dating back to 2014 had been uncovered. Munro admitted touching a 17-year-old’s leg without consent during lessons between August 2014 and April 2015. He also pled guilty to sexually assaulting another 17-year-old by repeatedly touching her leg without consent during lessons between September 2015 and March 2016. Munro admitted making inappropriate remarks and comments about a third pupil’s appearance for the purposes of gaining sexual gratification between September 2015 and April 2016. And he admitted the same charge against a fourth woman between December 2019 and March 2020. Last year the court heard how Munro, of the city’s Baberton area, repeatedly targeted four victims before a police investigation landed him in court. Those offences took place between 2017 and 2021. A mother previously told the Record how her 17-year-old daughter was sexually assaulted by “scumbag” Munro. She paid for her daughter to receive weekly two-hour lessons from him when he was an instructor through Red Driving School. She said: “She came back after the first lesson and told me Munro called all his pupils his ‘girlfriends’. I thought it was bizarre, but my daughter said it was fine, she just wanted to pass her test. “Looking back, she would get really, really anxious before every lesson but I put it down to nerves. “Then another girl said police were speaking to Munro’s pupils and my daughter said some things had happened to her. “I got her to write it down, because it was difficult for her. It was awful to read. I was so angry and contacted the police myself to report it.” Munro pled guilty to sexually assaulting the teen on various occasions on Edinburgh roads between December 2020 and August last year by touching her on the head and rubbing her thigh. September 2022 Edinburgh driving instructor touched legs and thighs of teenagers he taught A pervert driving instructor who sexually assaulted two teenagers while giving them road lessons has escaped a jail sentence. Findlay Munro preyed on one teen by touching her on the hand, legs and bottom while he also rubbed the thigh of a second young woman after being hired to teach the pair to drive. Munro, 62, also made vile sexual comments to two further female victims while driving on roads in Edinburgh city centre between December 2020 and August last year. Munro appeared at the capital’s sheriff court earlier this year to admit the offences and he was back in the dock for sentencing on Tuesday. Sheriff Adrian Fraser told the shamed instructor he had committed a serious “breach of trust” by sexually assaulting the women while working for the Red Driving School. Sheriff Fraser sentenced Munro to a community-based disposal as a direct alternative to a custodial sentence. Munro, from Baberton, Edinburgh, was placed on the sex offenders register and under the supervision of the social work deportment for the next two years. He was also told he must comply with a conduct requirement where he will have to attend “offence focused work” sessions when asked to do so by his supervising officer. The sheriff said: “As indicated I take the view this is a very serious charge and involves a breach of trust.” Previously the court heard Munro, who had been a driving instructor for 11 years, was snared after one 17-year-old victim broke down and confessed to her mother what had been happening to her during lessons. The disgusted mum immediately contacted the police and after also informing the driving school Munro was sacked from his position. He also admitted to causing two women to hear sexual verbal communications by making inappropriate comments about their appearance and their personal relationships between the same dates.