Peter Webb, 74, sentenced to four years in prison for abusing boys at Christ’s Hospital school in Horsham in 1970s and 80s

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A former housemaster at a top private school has been jailed for four years for sexually abusing four of his pupils.



Peter Webb would sneak into dormitories and touch the boys while they slept at Christ’s Hospital school in Horsham, West Sussex, in the 1970s and 80s, Hove crown court was told.

The children would wake to find the teacher sitting on the edge of their beds with his hands in their pyjamas. He also pushed himself up against one of the boys during a woodwork class, the trial heard.

The judge, Christine Henson, described Webb’s crimes as a “gross abuse of trust”.