 Upon release from internment, Gerd Sommerhoff taught science at the Dragon School and presented science programmes for the BBC from 1960–1962 before being recruited to Sevenoaks School in 1963 by headmaster Kim Taylor.Alice Hemmings reported allegations of sexual abuse dating from 1976 in "The Sevenoaks Chronicle".The assault was reported to the Kent Police force by Stuart Neilson in 2012.