A FORMER teacher has been charged with eight sexual offences against boys under 16.

Jonathan O’Brien, 60, from Bosham, West Sussex, has been charged with four counts of gross indecency with a boy under 16 and four counts of indecent assault on a boy under 16 between 1990 and 1996.

He is alleged to have committed these offences when he worked at Seaford College near Petworth, West Sussex and the boy was a pupil.

He will appear at Worthing Magistrates’ Court tomorrow.