Former Rottingdean teacher charged with child sex offences

Tuesday, 12 May 2026 16:43

By Ryan Millns

A teacher at a former Rottingdean school has been charged with sex offences against three boys.

Police received reports from four men that they had been sexually assaulted as children by a teacher at the now closed St Aubyn’s School in Rottingdean, between 1990 and 1995.

Jeffrey Nicholls, 73, of Waterloo Road in Cardiff, has now been summonsed to face charges involving three alleged victims, namely three counts of indecent assault of a boy under 16, two counts of indecent assault on a boy under 14 and one count of making an indecent image of a child.

He remains on bail, to appear before Brighton Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, 21 May.

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