Raymond John Woods, now 66, was sentenced yesterday at the Downing Centre, Sydney, before Judge Robert Toner.

Woods was sentenced on 21 offences which included two counts of sexual assault, indecent assault of a person under 16 and under authority, and 16 counts of homosexual intercourse as a teacher of a pupil aged 10 to 18.

There was also a count of sexual assault (category three) of a person under 16 years of age and further counts of homosexual intercourse with a male aged between 10 and 18 years and gross indecency by a male with a male under 18 years.

The assaults occurred between 1983 and 1986 while Woods was working as a teacher and housemaster at The Scots School.

Woods last appeared at the Downing Centre before Judge Michael King on May 9, where he was found guilty on the 21 charges and refused bail.

Judge King also lifted the suppression order which had been in place since Woods’ first appearance in the Bathurst Local Court, and then put over sentencing until July 1.

Yesterday, Judge Toner sentenced Woods to an aggregate term of imprisonment of eight years to commence on May 8, 2014 and expire on May 7, 2022, with a non-parole period of four years.

Woods will be eligible for parole on May 7, 2018.

Woods was arrested and charged as a result of investigations by Bathurst detectives attached to Strike Force Zahel, which was formed in 2011.

He had previously been convicted of three indecent assaults on a student at the same school.

In March 2011, Woods was found to have indecently assaulted a 15-year-old student when he was housemaster of the “Newhouse” dormitory, 38 years earlier. He was placed on a Section 9 Bond for two years and fined $1000.