Star of Netflix show Sex Education Alexander Westwood revealed to be a paedophile following horrific allegations

Trigger warning: This article contains descriptions of sexual assault

“Manipulative and predatory” Netflix actor Alexander Westwood has been found guilty of 26 sex offences, with the first of his sexual assaults taking place when the actor was just 10 years old.

Westwood, who starred in the series Sex Education and BBC series Doctors, was described as a “supreme manipulator” during his trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court in the UK.

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As reported by UK news outlet The Sun, the 24-year-old actor was accused of raping a teenage girl in his acting class, forcing pupils to recite Shakespeare while naked, and engaging in role-play scenarios naked.

Westwood also filmed one particular actress on his iPad and then attempted to charge her family $A36,000 when she began missing his acting lessons after the sexual abuse.

Disgraced actor Alexander Westwood on the set of Sex Education. Credit: alexander.westwood/Instagram

The actor, who appeared in 17 episodes of Sex Education, would hold private acting lessons in his apartment during which many of the offences took place.

Westwood’s first charge was from an offence on his 10th birthday — the age criminality begins in the UK, the outlet reported.

The court also heard that he had a fascination with pornography from a young age.

As per the BBC, prosecutor Andrew Wallace told the court: “Alexander Westwood is an actor. He is a supreme manipulator.

“All these charges have a common theme, of inappropriate touching and predatory behaviour.

“The 10 indictments concerning a girl, the first charge is on the date of his 10th birthday, that is the date because there is not criminality before this age.”

He sexually assaulted one child over an eight-year period, abused another girl who came to him for acting lessons multiple times and was also convicted of inciting a boy aged between nine and 10 years to engage in sexual activity, the BBC reported.

Alexander Westwood in April 2024. Credit: alexander.westwood/Instagram

Another victim was “forced to act out the most inappropriate scenes,” with the court hearing that Westwood’s sexual offending was “a habit, a lifestyle” across the last 14 years.

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

“If we were to list every instance there would be hundreds of charges,” Wallace added.

“Then when giving acting lessons, he again used this as an opportunity to touch his pupils inappropriately.

“These are schoolgirls we are talking about, teenagers. Imagine asking Dame Judi Dench to recite Hamlet naked, she would tell you where to go.”

One victim who was raped by Westwood told the court through tears of “the hell” she experienced.

“He would get very angry and hold me down by my wrists, I would have to bite him just to get away from him,” the woman told the court.

“He would ask me for sex and when I said no would carry on. I would tell him I did not want to because I was not happy, but he would just ignore me.

“He would get angry and throw things. He would regularly pin me down by my wrists so I could not move.

“I would have to bite him to get him off me. He would lie, lie and lie.

“He told my mother I needed to be in a psychiatric hospital.”

Westwood will be sentenced on February 25.

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