Ex King’s teacher in UK prison

A former King’s College teacher and housemaster will spend four years in jail for sex crimes against three boys aged 10 to 12, committed at an exclusive English school in the 1980s.

Paul Dodd, 64, was two months ago given a two-year suspended sentence for child cruelty and indecent assault.

However, a Court of Appeal hearing this month overturned the sentence after it was challenged as “unduly lenient” by the Attorney General’s Office.

The Appeal Court found the sentencing judge in July should have imposed a sentence of four years.

Dodd became a housemaster at King’s College after he was sacked from the English private school where boarders are charged $90,000 a year.

He admitted to the historical abuse in April.

Board of governors chair Shan Wilson said the school wanted to assure its former students that its door is open if they have “experienced any such harm from Mr Dodd while at the college”.

The headmaster of the elite Whitgift School in the South London town of Croydon had provided Dodd with a glowing reference, which helped land him a job at the upmarket Auckland school. The headmaster has since died.

A 60 Minutes documentary examined Dodd taking up a new role in New Zealand while being accused of indecently assaulting a pupil at his previous school.

A subsequent Broadcasting Standards Authority complaint taken against TVNZ by King’s College, which was partially upheld, revealed former headmaster John Taylor knew there was an allegation but the investigation had not finished when he employed Dodd.

He also maintained Dodd was not on the UK banned teacher list when he was given a job at King’s College.

Dodd taught at the college from

1988 to 1994.

Details of Dodd’s crimes against the young pupils dating back nearly

40 years were outlined at his sentencing in July at the Gloucester Crown Court.

The Express said the first incident took place in a changing room where Dodd made a child strip naked.

The next was on a school trip when he locked a child wearing a T-shirt and boxer shorts in his room and indecently assaulted him.

Another child was molested on another school trip.