A BERE ALSTON man who sexually abused two boys during private tuition sessions and camping trips has been jailed for 10 years. Stephen Trelease, 54, of The Square, was a teacher who manipulated his ?position of trust? to abuse two pupils, Plymouth Crown Court heard. A jury heard how organised trips and private tuition offered Trelease the ?perfect opportunity? to sexually assault the boys. Trelease shook his head in the dock after a jury found him guilty of 14 child sex charges, relating to offences committed between June 1973 and June 1980. He was cleared of two other sexual offences. Mouthing the words ?I love you? to his tearful partner in the public gallery, Trelease looked pale and haggard as he was sent down to the cells. His sentence was greeted with applause by his victims and their relatives. Judge Francis Gilbert, sentencing, told Trelease: ?You have been found guilty of a number of serious sexual offences committed against two young boys at a time when they were entrusted to you by their parents. ?The boys were young at the time and you intimidated them into silence.? The court heard that Trelease met his first victim when he visited a school to ?recruit? young people for a youth club he had formed. He went on to abuse the boy for about four years, between 1973 and 1977, the jury was told. After a break of almost two years, Trelease began abusing his second victim, both at his home and at camps across the region. The court heard that Trelease had lost his job as a teacher after being convicted of sexually abusing other young boys during the 1980s.