The child abuse royal commission has issued a warrant for the arrest of a former teacher at Sydney's Knox Grammar school who failed to turn up for a hearing.
Christopher Fotis was due to give evidence on Tuesday but did not show up.
On Thursday David Lloyd, counsel advising the commission, said police were searching for Fotis and if he was found he would be brought to the commission.
Fotis was never charged with offences at Knox but was jailed in Melbourne for sexual abuse offences at a school there after his time at Knox, in Wahroonga on Sydney's north shore.
The inquiry into the NSW private boys' school is focusing on an incident in 1988 at one of the boarding houses, MacNeil House, when a person wearing a Knox tracksuit and balaclava hid under a child's bed and sexually assaulted him.
Mr Lloyd said although the person's face was concealed by the balaclava a number of the boys in the dormitory believed the offender was Fotis.
The boys were later told police arrested the intruder - "an Asian man" - but the commission has found no evidence that police were ever informed of an intruder or a sexual assault.
Fotis left MacNeil shortly after the incident and resigned from Knox a year later when he was found by police masturbating in his car outside a school in Melbourne.
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