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  • February 11, 2025
Sex education actor Alexander Westwood has been found guilty of raping teenagers during acting classes

Sex education actor Alexander Westwood has been found guilty of raping teenagers during acting classes

A “manipulator and predatory” actor who played the lead role Netflix show Sex Education has been found guilty of more than two dozen sexual crimesalso against children.

Alexander Westwood, 24, from Albrighton in Shropshire, was found guilty of Wolverhampton Crown Court more than 26 sexual offenses against women and children. He will be sentenced in February next year.

During the trial, Westwood was described as a “bad apple” and “supreme manipulator” who used his position of authority as an acting teacher to prey on his young students.

Jurors were also told that sexual abuse was part of Westwood’s “lifestyle.”

His latest offense dates back to when Westwood was just ten, with the prosecution claiming the suspect had shown a ‘fascination’ with pornography from an early age.

Prosecutor Andrew Wallace spoke of two teenage girls who came to Westwood for help with acting, but were then “forced to act out the most inappropriate scenes” and systematically abused for years.

“When fame beckoned, he met two impressionable 16-year-olds and used his respected position to abuse them,” he said.

Between November 2020 and September 2021, the suspect repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted one of the students, who attended drama school in Birmingham.

Mr Wallace said Westwood would touch her, touch himself and rape her.

He talked to her about a sex scene from the 1991 film Frankie and Johnny and a masturbation scene from Bridgerton, Mr. Wallace said, and he also filmed her naked on his iPad.

When she questioned and challenged him, he said, “Do what your teacher says… do you trust me?” he added.

After saying she would no longer attend Westwood’s sessions, the perpetrator introduced a contract, described by the prosecutor as a “coercive tool to keep her in line”, stating that she would owe him thousands of pounds if she wouldn’t continue going to his classes.

His abuse of the second teen overlapped and occurred between May and August 2021.

Other cases of abuse included forcing a young girl, whom he systematically abused for seven years, to drink his urine.

Mr Wallace claimed the girl’s abuse at a home in Walsall, West Midlands, included vile actions that counted for more than the 10 charges against her.

He added: “If we listed every case there would be hundreds of charges.”

Additional reporting by SWNS