PAUL Sear, the Suffolk teacher who pleaded guilty to a string of offences involving pornographic pictures of children will be sentence today at Bury Crown Court.

PAUL Sear, the Suffolk teacher who pleaded guilty to a string of offences involving pornographic pictures of children will be sentence today at Bury Crown Court.

Sear has pleaded guilty to 21 charges of making indecent photographs of children under 16 and one charge of distributing them.

The offences were committed between August 13 2001 and May 16 2002.

The 54-year-old, of Burrell Road ,Ipswich, was a teacher for 27 years with 22 of these spent at Stowupland High School.

He was arrested last May after police experts examined computer equipment found at his home.