The 81-year-old former boarding school housemaster and scout leader, spent 27 years on the run in Thailand before he was arrested at Heathrow Airport last year.
Before his trial, Burrows admitted 43 offences – including indecent assault of boys, making indecent images of children, possession of indecent images of children and four counts of possession of false identity documents with intent.
He denied 54 others, which jurors at Chester Crown Court convicted him of last month.
Those offences include indecent assault of boys, buggery, attempted buggery and indecency with a child.
The trial heard that Burrows had obtained positions of authority and systematically abused boys 24 boys from the 1960s to the mid-1990s.
He had worked as a housemaster at a school for troubled boys and befriended other youngsters through amateur radio clubs.
Burrows was initially charged in May 1997 but failed to attend a hearing later that year.
He remained on the wanted list until police using facial recognition software matched him to a man using the name Peter Smith. He had stolen the identity of a terminally ill friend to obtain a passport.
Burrows described “living in paradise” in emails found after his eventual arrest, written after he fled to Thailand.
After his conviction last month, judge Steven Everett told Burrows he had caused “untold distress and trauma to the victims and their families”.
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One of those was his first victim, aged 14 at the time in the late 1960s, and now 71.
He told Sky News’ chief North of England correspondent Greg Milam that he feels like a weight has been lifted after waiting 57 years for justice.
“It does actually feel like a weight’s been lifted. You hear that expression all through life, but it’s the first time ever really felt it,” he said.
He described Burrows as a “devious, nasty creature”.
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