Sex Education actor Alexander Westwood found guilty of raping teenagers in acting class

A “manipulator and predatory” actor who starred in Netflix present Intercourse Training has been discovered responsible of greater than two dozen intercourse offences, together with towards youngsters.

Alexander Westwood, 24, from Albrighton in Shropshire, was discovered responsible at Wolverhampton Crown Court docket over a 26 sexual offences towards girls and kids. He will likely be sentenced in February subsequent yr.

Throughout the trial, Westwood was described as a “rotten apple” and “supreme manipulator” who used his place of authority as an appearing instructor to prey on his younger pupils.

Jurors had been additionally informed that sexual abuse was part of Westwood’s “life-style”.

His youngest offence dates again to when Westwood was simply 10, whereas the prosecution claimed the suspect had proven a “fascination” with pornography from a younger age.

Prosecutor Andrew Wallace spoke of two teenage women who got here to Westwood for assist with appearing, solely to be “compelled to behave out essentially the most inappropriate scenes” and systematically abused over years.

“As fame beckons, he met two impressionable 16-year-olds and used his revered place to abuse them,” he stated.

Between November 2020 and September 2021, the suspect raped and sexually assaulted one of many pupils, who was going to drama faculty in Birmingham, repeatedly.

Mr Wallace stated Westwood would contact her, contact himself and rape her.

He talked to her a couple of intercourse scene from the 1991 movie Frankie and Johnny and a masturbation scene from Bridgerton, Mr Wallace stated, in addition to filming her bare on his iPad.

When she questioned and challenged him, he would say “do what your instructor says… do you belief me?”, he added.

After she talked about not coming to Westwood’s classes anymore, the offender launched a contract, described by the prosecution as a “coercive software to maintain her in line” that stated she would owe him hundreds of kilos if she didn’t maintain attending his classes.

His abuse of the second teenager overlapped, occurring between Could and August 2021.

Different cases of abuse included forcing a younger woman, who he systematically abused for seven years, to drink his urine.

Mr Wallace claimed the abuse of the woman at a home in Walsall, West Midlands included vile actions which numbered greater than the ten expenses regarding her.

He added: “If we had been to record each occasion there could be a whole bunch of expenses.”

Further reporting by SWNS