A "sadistic" teacher who abused young girls in residential care over a 15-year period has been spared jail and instructed to pay £1,000 per victim.Patricia Robertson, 77, was convicted of a litany of offences committed between 1969 and 1984 on girls as young as five at Fornethy House in Kilry, Angus.The offences included delivering punishments for wetting the bed, force-feeding, banging girls' heads together and dragging children by their hair, the High Court in Glasgow heard.

A "sadistic" teacher who abused young girls in residential care over a 15-year period has been spared jail and instructed to pay £1,000 per victim.Patricia Robertson, 77, was convicted of a litany of offences committed between 1969 and 1984 on girls as young as five at Fornethy House in Kilry, Angus.The offences included delivering punishments for wetting the bed, force-feeding, banging girls' heads together and dragging children by their hair, the High Court in Glasgow heard.