By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 11:01 EST, 11 July 2012 | UPDATED: 14:04 EST, 11 July 2012 On trial: Teacher Bruce Roth, pictured outside court earlier in his trial, is accused of sexually abusing students while working at King's School in Rochester, Kent, and Wellington College in Berkshire A housemaster accused of molesting boys at night at a top public school was previously a pop singer who had toured with legendary DJ Norman Cook, a court heard today. Bruce Roth, a maths teacher at £30,000-a-year Wellington College, Berks, is accused of sneaking into boys' dormitories in the middle of the night and molesting them as they lay in bed.
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Bruce Roth is accused of sneaking into boys' dormitories at night
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Maths teacher worked at £30,000-a-year Wellington College in Berkshire
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He is accused of abusing five boys in incidents dating back to 1987
He claimed that money was a possible motive for the allegations being made up against him, and told the jury that the family of one of the boys planned to sue him and @placeholder for 'large amounts of money' following the case.