An assistant headteacher who targeted teenage girls for sex and indecent images with ‘extremely manipulative behaviour’ has been sentenced to eight years in jail.

Teacher Richard Cottyn, 36, from Sheffield, was charged with a staggering 90 offences involving more than 30 teenage girl victims. 

The father-of-two appeared at Guildford Crown Court today and was sentenced to eight years in jail after a judge heard his catalogue of offences spanning four years.

He will remain on the Sex Offenders’ Register for the rest of his life.

A spokesman for Surrey Police said that Cottyn had been charged with 90 separate offences relating to 32 victims. The offences took place between September 2013 and September 2017.

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