May 2015 Music teacher jailed for sex attacks on boys at Sussex school A RETIRED music teacher has been jailed for four years for sex offences against young boys he was teaching in West Sussex. At Hove Crown Court Roger Francis Lunn, 76, of High Street, Soham, Cambridgeshire, was sentenced to a total of four years’ imprisonment, having pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to 10 counts of indecent assault on two boys. The offences occurred between 1982 and 1986 at Great Walstead School, in Lindfield. Lunn went to the school to teach music, and in the two victims’ cases, the cello. Seven of the alleged offences relate to one of the boys and three relate to the other boy. Lunn was also ordered to be a registered sex offender for life. He is already a registered sex offender, having been sentenced to a term of probation in September 2010 at Cambridge Crown Court, relating to similar offences that had happened in Cambridgeshire, London and Sussex. Police emphasise that there are no current safeguarding issues at the school. The prosecution followed an investigation by West Sussex child protection detectives into allegations first received in 2012. September 2010 Former LSO cellist Roger Lunn admits abusing pupils A former London Symphony Orchestra cellist who indecently assaulted three boy pupils has been ordered to attend a sex offender treatment programme. Roger Lunn, 71, of Ely, Cambridgeshire, sexually abused the pupils between 1970 and 1989 while giving private lessons. He admitted carrying out the abuse during private lessons he gave while living in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, and Surbiton, Surrey. He was given a three-year probation order by Judge Jonathan Haworth. The court heard how the widower, who had performed with the famous cellist Jacqueline du Pre, “fondled” the boys during lessons. Judge Jonathan Haworth said he had decided not to send Lunn to jail.