A former schoolteacher has been handed a third, 12-month prison sentence for a third sex offence committed at a school in Sussex where he worked. Peter Webb who is 77 was sentenced to prison time in 2015 and 2017 after admitting offences against pupils whom he was teaching at Christ’s Hospital School in Horsham.
Yesterday at Hove Crown Court Mr Webb was convicted of three counts of indecent assault on a boy pupil then aged between 11 and 12 years old in the early 1970s. In 2015 and 2017 Mr Webb was convicted for a series of indecent assaults on five boys at the school between 1974 and 1984, where he was employed, at the all-boys boarding school as a woodwork teacher and housemaster.
UNN’s Oliver Down understands that Mr Webb was days away from release for the previously convicted crimes. The latest sentence will not run concurrently with his previous convictions and will begin immediately following the end of his current term in prison.
Det Sgt Rebecca Wilde, from Sussex Police, has said: “This is the third time that Webb has faced justice, as his victims from so many years ago have gradually found the strength to come forward. He had systematically targeted this vulnerable young boy, as he had all the others, while he was in a position of authority and trust, for his own sexual gratification. He made the boy feel special, establishing in effect a secret relationship with him over many months. To this day the victim remembers, as well as the distressing events, the distinctive aroma of stale alcohol and tobacco that he associates with Webb”.
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