A FORMER Barnsley teacher has been jailed for more than four years after pleading guilty to sexual offences against children.

Former Darton High School drama teacher Russell Booth, 55, was sentenced to 49 months at Leeds Crown Court on Tuesday after pleading guilty to inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and two offences of causing a child to watch a sexual act.

Booth, of Thornhill, Dewsbury, must also sign on the sex offenders register for life.

His offending took place in 2014 and 2015 against girls aged 13, 11 and 12.

Booth had been head of drama at Darton but left in 2010 after a period of ill health.