A former Eastbourne hospital boss has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for a series of financial offences.

Clive Robinson, 37, pleaded guilty at Hove Crown Court yesterday to 13 charges including false accounting, making false instruments and using false instruments dating between September 1998 and December last year.

At the time Robinson, of Huggetts Lane, Willingdon, Eastbourne, was executive director of the town's 50-bed Esperance Hospital in Trinity Trees.