Overview
- Judge Robert Linford imposed a three-year-nine-month term, with eligibility for release on licence after half the sentence is served.
- A jury found Anthony Redmond guilty of eight counts, including seven abuses of a position of trust and one indecency with a child, for offences at school, his home and a hotel in the early 2000s.
- He was placed on the Sex Offenders Register for life, given a 20-year restraining order barring contact with the two victims, and made subject to barring measures preventing roles of trust.
- Victim statements described grooming, isolation and lasting harm, while the prosecutor said Redmond minimized his conduct and wrongly claimed it reflected a different culture.
- Devon and Cornwall Police praised the victims for coming forward, and the school issued an apology and commissioned an independent review of safeguarding arrangements.