A paedophile teacher who would watch pupils in the shower and grope them in the classroom has been jailed for nine years.
Piers Le Cheminant, now 77, targeted boys at Oakwood boarding school, Chichester, and Salisbury Cathedral School, Wiltshire, between 1965 and 1986.
Le Cheminant, of Newton Abbot, Devon, would call boys to the front of the class and grope their buttocks while their classmates watched, the court was told.
He would also watch the boys shower after they had played sport and took some of his victims somewhere private, where he would grope them and smack their buttocks.
Le Cheminant was convicted of 10 indecent assaults against nine boys.
Judge Timothy Mousley KC said the defendant had shown a “lack of remorse” for his crimes.
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He said: “One of the children was only eight years old when you started to abuse him. Each of these boys was particularly vulnerable and you took advantage of that.
“The harm was severe in some cases and you breached the trust which others expected of you. You have left them with appalling memories of their time at school.”
Le Cheminant was also given a lifelong sexual harm prevention order and ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register.
He was sentenced on June 16.
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