article_snippet: A spokesman said: 'Norfolk Crown Court can confirm 83-year-old David William Tuohy who was due to be sentenced after being found guilty of a string of sexual offences against pupils at an independent school has died.'
article_snippet: Tuohy's family and victims have been informed of the man , police confirmed.
article_snippet: Last month, Norfolk Crown Court heard how Tuohy liked to discipline boys who came to the school from different parts of the UK and found Tuohy's family and victims alone, isolated and separated from Tuohy's family and victims families.
article_snippet: Detective Constable Faith Morris, from Norfolk Police, said Tuohy had used a position of 'absolute trust' to abuse the man victims. '
article_snippet: The fact Tuohy pleaded not guilty to all counts meant his victims were forced to relive the traumatic events which occurred all those years ago,' Tuohy said of the man trial.
article_snippet: Tuohy was a headmaster at Eccles Hall in Quidenham, Norfolk, (pictured) in the 1970s when Tuohy indecently assaulted five pupils - all of whom had special needs and were aged under 13.
article_snippet: Tuohy was convicted of 15 charges .
article_snippet: Tuohy was originally arrested in June last year and charged with four counts of indecent assault and four counts of buggery against one victim.
article_snippet: Four further victims then came forward resulting in Tuohy being charged with a further 14 indecent assaults.
article_snippet: Tuohy was found not guilty of three of 15 charges and 15 charges but convicted of a further 14 indecent assaults.
highlights_snippet: David Tuohy was due to be sentenced next week for historic sex abuse .
  