Former pupils criticised the Catholic church in Scotland yesterday for failing to offer support to victims of physical and sexual abuse in two schools.

Three men were reported to Crown Office prosecutors on Thursday in connection with allegations of historic sexual and physical abuse at the Fort Augustus Abbey school and its preparatory school Carlekemp in the Highlands in the 1960s and 70s.

Donald MacLeod, who attended Fort Augustus Abbey school from the age of 14, in the early 1960s, told a BBC documentary team he had expected the church to "live up to their responsibility and do the Christianity thing and help people who in their care have suffered."