Former teacher who sexually abused student jailed

A former boarding school housemaster and science teacher has been jailed for sexually abusing a pupil in the 1980s.

Kent Police said Simon Montgomery exploited his position to repeatedly assault a young boy under his care when he taught at what was then known as Dulwich College Preparatory School in Cranbrook, Kent.

Montgomery, of Littlefield Road, Rainham, was charged with two counts of indecent assault, one count of gross indecency with a child and one count of making indecent images of a child, to which he pleaded guilty to all offences.

The 70-year-old was sentenced to three years and four months at Maidstone Crown Court.

Kent Police said Montgomery began grooming his victim by instructing him to stay behind after lessons, before showing him explicit magazines.

The force added that this moved on to repeated instances of sexual abuse in both the classroom and at a nearby sports facility.

Police said allegations were reported to them in December 2022 and Montgomery was arrested.

He confessed to officers during interviews, confirming the victim's name before being asked, police added.

Det Con Emma Coghlan said: "Sex offenders like him wreak incalculable damage on their victims, many who will suffer in silence for years, or throughout their whole lives."

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