A music teacher has been charged with non-recent child sexual offences in both south London and west Sussex.

Andrew Simon Wilson, of Norwood Way in Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex, appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court yesterday (January 17) charged with a total of 20 offences, including 17 against four boys who were between nine and 14 at the time.

The 56-year-old allegedly committed some of the offences while working as a choirmaster and music teacher at St Mary’s Church in Church Road, Beddington.

Wilson was charged with 11 cases of incident assault, as well as four cases of gross indecency, on three boys at locations in west Sussex, during the 1980s.

He was also charged with two cases of sexual assault and one case of meeting a child for sexual activity, which both allegedly relate to a boy between 2009 and 2010, at locations in south London and Germany.

Police charged the self-employed music teacher and organist with three cases of making a total of 39 indecent images of unidentified children, which were found at his address when Wilson was arrested in September 2016.

They said the images found when he was arrested are believed to come from the internet and do not relate to children in the areas referred to.

Wilson did not enter any pleas before the case was committed for trial with an appearance at Lewes Crown Court scheduled for February 14.