A FORMER boarding school teacher has admitted carrying out a string of sex attacks on boys.

Nicholas Quest, a former teacher at Boundary Oak Boarding School, near Fareham, was charged with six counts of indecent assault between 1975 and 1989 relating to boys aged between seven and 16.

He pleaded guilty to each count during a hearing at Portsmouth Crown Court this morning.

The 56-year-old, from Linden Grove, Gosport, was a teacher at £2,275-a-term Boundary Oak in Wickham Road at the time of the offences.

Hampshire police said he was charged on June 6. He will be sentenced on August 16 at Portsmouth Crown Court.