A jury found Deborah Franklin, 65, a former teacher at a Hertfordshire preparatory school, guilty of eight counts of gross indecency with a boy under 14 between 1991 and 1995.

Deborah Franklin, 65, is standing trial charged with eight counts of gross indecency against the boy in the 1990s while he was aged between nine and 12.

Deborah Franklin taught at a preparatory school in Hertfordshire at the time of the alleged offences in the 1990s, when the boy would have been aged between nine and 12