Jailed: Ex-teacher gets 14 years for string of sexual assaults on children
A former teacher has been jailed for 14 years for a string of sexual assaults on children over a more than decade.
John McKno, 70, committed assaults against five children between 1979 and 1989, at three different boarding schools around the country.
One of the schools was St Michael's College in Tenbury Wells, on the Shropshire border - although the school has subsequently changed ownership and reopened as an international school with no connection to the establishment at which the offences took place, apart from the buildings and the name.
McKno, of Alby Hill, Alby, in Norfolk, was sentenced at Ipswich Crown Court yesterday. He will remain on the Sex Offenders' Register for an indefinite period.
Among the charges admitted by McKno were two counts of gross indecency with a child under 14, committed while at St Michael's between January 1979 and December 1985.
He was first arrested in 2014 by detectives from Suffolk Police's Operation Garford, set-up specifically to investigate allegations of abuse at the former Kesgrave Hall boarding school in the county.
