The former head teacher of a Croydon school has appealed his conviction for engaging in sex acts with an underage boy in his home.A jury at the Old Bailey in August found John Coatman, 75, guilty of gross indecency with a boy in the early 1970s, but cleared the former head at St Andrew's Church of England High School in Waddon, of buggery with the boy, who cannot be identified.Coatman, of Leyburn Gardens, was due to be sentenced at the Old Bailey today, but applied to the Court of Appeal to...
