Former teacher Frank Skipwith, from Oxfordshire, was sentenced on Monday, January 31 at Hove Crown Court after he abused a number of children at two different boarding schools over a 12-year period.

According to reports, Skipwith become headteacher at Crosfields School on Shinfield Road in Reading in 1985 where he stayed until 2000.

In December 2021, he was convicted of three counts of indecent assaults on a boy under 14 in 1993 at Crosfields, a fee-paying independent school where it currently costs up to £5,750 for one-term’s education.

Following an eight-day re-trial, he was also found guilty of indecent assault against two boys under 14 at Fernden preparatory school near Midhurst, Sussex, between 1981 and 1985.

Skipwith, of Eynsham, had first been convicted on 13 March 2020 at Lewes Crown Court after a seven-week trial, of 17 indecent assaults against ten boys then between eight and 14-years-old at Fernden between 1981 and 1985.

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