25/02/2025
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/alexander-westwood-s*x-education-actor-jailed-r**e-b2704410.html
'ALEXANDER WESTWOOD' Who appeared in the Netflix documentary 'S*X EDUCATION' and again in the BBC series 'DOCTORS' has been convicted and Jailed for 26 child S3xual offences including R**e.
Prosecutor Andrew Wallace KC said: Westwood A 'Child s*xual predator' Could have been charged with 77 serious s*xual assaults but for ease of sentencing they had been reduced to 26 counts.
Sentencing Westwood, 24, of Holyhead Road, Albrighton, To 15 and a half years in custody at Wolverhampton Crown Court, Judge Neil Chawla said he used his minor celebrity status to prey on impressionable, And innocent young girls.
There were tears in the public gallery, Which included further victims of whose evidence was not heard during this trial before the hearing began as Westwood, Dressed in a grey suit, smirked in the dock.
Victims read out their victim impact statements.
"I have a reoccurring nightmare, Alexander Westwood is standing above me, I wake up every time, I am scared on public transport in case I see him. I have anxiety at work because he knows where it is. As a child I was violated, I self-harmed because I hated myself. Instead of taking it out on someone else, "I took it out on myself."
The mother of one of the victims told the court: My son said 'The court system scares me, I do not want to see Alexander ever again. When I am alone I worry about it'.
Another victim cried saying 'My relationships are suffering, I am untrusting in relationships. Alexander is a very manipulative person and he has ruined my life, I feel it is something I cannot fix, I will have to live with this for the rest of my life. He has ruined my life and other peoples lives and he does not care about people'. As she spoke her last line in court, She was seen leaving the witness stand sobbing.
Another victim, Who Westwood r***d during acting classes, said: "I hate having a shower, I hate touching myself to wash, I despise everything to do with acting when it was all I wanted to do, I started to despise men, During secondary school when the abuse was happening I could not see a point of living".
Talking through the tears, she added: "I have hated myself and hate everything, Because of him."
Another victim, who came into contact with Westwood through his mother's church, said she cannot enter relationships or have intimate relations because of Westwood.
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