Netflix’s Sex Education actor Alexander Westwood has been jailed for 15 years after he was found guilty of 26 sex offences, including abusing children
A Sex Education actor who abused young girls during acting classes has been jailed for 15 years.
Netflix actor, Alexander Westwood, 24 and from Albrighton in Shropshire, was found guilty of 26 sex offences, which included child sex offences. He could’ve been charged with up to 77 but it was reduced to 26 for ease of sentencing, according to prosecutor Andrew Wallace KC .
Alexander was dubbed a “supreme manipulator” whose sexual offences were a “lifestyle” to him. The prosecutor told the court: “As fame beckons, he met two impressionable 16-year-olds and used his revered position to abuse them.
“If we were to list every instance there would be hundreds of charges.”
Judge Neil Chawla told the actor: “You used your minor celebrity status as an actor to prey on impressionable, innocent and naive young girls. Throughout your trial your nonchalant attitude bordered on arrogance.
“However, the jury rejected your denials and rejected your story of blaming the victims, and rather found that in fact, as the prosecution stated, that you are a serial predator and that sexual offending became part of your lifestyle.
“I thought long and hard about bail but as an act of mercy for your parents, you were expected to stay at your home address. You were found last week in a hotel in clear breach of the terms of your bail so mercifully provided by this court.
“One of your victims said she felt dehumanised. Another said how she felt dirty just doing the most mundane things. This is the horrifying, lasting effect on the victims of what you did – your sordid sexual criminality.
“I must sentence you for a multitude of sexual offending over a decade of your life. You have shown no remorse and remain a danger to the public. The jury have exposed you as both a predator and a manipulator.”
Prosecutor Mr Wallace added: “Following a lengthy trial the defendant was found guilty of a catalogue of crimes and is therefore not subject to any credit. In fact he called his victims liars in a pre-sentence report, which is regrettable.
“The pre-sentence report shows the defendant regularly showed totally inappropriate sexualised behaviour at a young age. He is a serial sexual predator, particularly targeting children. Four of his victims were children at the time. This is abuse on a huge scale. He could have been sentenced to 77 serious sexual assaults, but that would have been unwieldy to sentence.
“It is worrying how much planning went into this offending, none of which have become remorse. He went to so much effort which is very worrying. He is a significant risk to the public. He has a flagrant disregard for his victims.”
In December 2024, he was found guilty of 26 offences including some against children in acting classes. Though he denied all offences and claimed his alleged victims had motivation to falsely accuse him.
His guilty offences include raping a school girl he taught and sexually assaulting a child over the course of eight years.
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