A RETIRED school music teacher has been handed four years in prison for sex offences against young boys.

Roger Francis Lunn was sentenced at Hove Crown Court yesterday, having pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to ten counts of indecent assault on two boys.

The offences occurred between 1982 and 1986 at Great Walstead School in Lindfield.

Police emphasise that there are no current safeguarding issues at the school.

The 76-year-old of Cowell Chambers, High Street, Soham, in Cambridgeshire, went to the school to teach music and, in the two victims’ cases, the cello.

At the time of the offences the boys were between 10 and 14 years old.

Seven of the alleged offences relate to one of the boys and three relate to the other boy.

The prosecution followed an investigation by West Sussex child protection detectives into allegations first received in 2012.

At court, Lunn was also ordered to be a registered sex offender for life.

He is already a registered sex offender, having been sentenced to a term of probation in September 2010 at Cambridge Crown Court, relating to similar offences that had happened in Cambridgeshire, London and Sussex.