A BLUE Angels biker has been cleared of torturing five children with cruel punishments including waterboarding, cold showers, and throwing darts at their heads.
Brian Currie, 42, was accused of inflicting horrific abuse on the kids, aged between one and 16, at two addresses in Southwest Scotland between 2014 and 2022.
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Kilmarnock High Court heard Currie, who was kicked out of the Blue Angels Motorbike gang following the allegations, was cleared of 15 of the 16 charges against him.
Following an eight-day trial, Currie was convicted of a single charge of acting in an aggressive manner, shouting, swearing and calling his ex partner derogatory names and uttering threats of violence, after the jury was shown CCTV footage of him shouting and shoving a kitchen table.
However the jury rejected testimony that Currie had stuffed wash cloths into the mouths of children as young as five before holding a shower head over the cloth until they were “choking for their last breath”.
The jury also didn’t believe that Currie had locked children in a loft, deprived them of sleep or made a girl, who was around seven-years-old, stand below a dart board while he took shots, before a dart eventually stabbed her in the head.
His lawyer Ian Duguid accused the children’s mother of “coaching” the youngsters because she had become enraged Currie had left her for another woman in 2022.
Currie, a former Scottish Champion Powerlifter, denied the abuse and broke down in tears numerous times when he was giving evidence in his own defence.
The court was shown text messages where he admitted that he was “a violent c***” who “treated the children hard”, but when on the stand he said he “didn’t mean anything by it”.
One of the children told the court Currie would monitor them on CCTV and punish them in warped ways if he seen them misbehaving.
However under oath, the children’s mother admitted she was the one who had installed the cameras in the home.
Currie wept in the dock as the jury announced not guilty and not proven verdicts on almost all the charges against him.
He will return to court next month for sentencing on the domestic charge.
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