A former teacher has escaped more jail time despite been found guilty of a series of sexual offences against young students in Warwick.

Paul Stainsby, 76, was jailed in 2022 for 14 years for sexual offences committed in the 1970s at a school in Essex.

At Warwick Crown Court this Tuesday (November 10), a jury found him guilty of 10 more offences against five pupils at Warwick School after a trial of the facts.

The court heard much of the abuse happened in a bedsit on the school grounds in the 1980s within the headmaster's accommodation.

Stainsby has not been handed any more jail time, with Judge Matthew Walsh explaining the former teacher had a form of dementia that had affected his memory and left him unfit for trial.

Victim impact assessments were read at court.

One said his "sense of self-worth was detrimentally impacted" by the abuse, the BBC has reported.

"My self-confidence was severely impacted and my school years became something to escape from rather than embrace," he said.

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"The school was an institution to be feared rather than enjoyed. Mentally, the impact has been permanent."

Judge Walsh said the jury's findings would hopefully help "close this chapter" for those affected.

Stainsby will remain behind bars until January 2029 for his previous conviction for sexual offences against two boys and a girl under the age of 16.

Once released, he will be subject to strict licence conditions until January 2036 and remain on the sex offenders' register for life.

At Warwick Crown Court this week, he was found guilty of eight counts of indecent assault on a boy under the age of 16, one count of indecent assault on a male aged 16 or over, and one count of inciting a boy under 14 to commit an act of gross indecency.