Sex Education star in court after sex offence charges against children and women

Sex Education prima Alexander Westwood’s proceedings has started aft helium was charged with enactment crimes against children and women.

The actor, 24, who played a pupil successful the Netflix amusement and has besides appeared successful Doctors, has been accused of 26 counts of intersexual abuse, including 4 counts of rape of a pistillate implicit 16.

Westwood, who gave acting classes, is besides accused of forcing budding actresses to recite Shakespeare and prosecute successful relation play naked.

Westwood denies each the charges.

Earlier this week, Westwood, from Albrighton, eastbound Shropshire, appeared astatine Wolverhampton Crown Court aft being charged past year, according to the Express and Star.

Prosecutor Andrew Wallace told the jury: ‘Alexander Westwood is an actor. He is simply a ultimate manipulator.

‘All these charges person a communal theme, of inappropriate touching and predatory behaviour.

‘The 10 indictments concerning a girl, the archetypal complaint is connected the day of his tenth birthday, that is the day due to the fact that determination is not criminality earlier this age.’

Wallace said that if they were to ‘list each instance’ of the alleged maltreatment Westwood inflicted connected the miss ‘there would beryllium hundreds of charges.’

Westwood is accused of utilizing his showbiz vocation to manipulate his students.

One accused him of ‘sexual deviancy and controlling behaviour’ and told her parent she ‘should beryllium admitted to a psychiatric infirmary due to the fact that she is going disconnected the rails.’

Wallace added: ‘Then erstwhile giving acting lessons, helium again utilized this arsenic an accidental to interaction his pupils inappropriately. 

‘These are schoolgirls we are talking about, teenagers. Imagine asking Dame Judi Dench to recite Hamlet naked, she would archer you wherever to go.’

Westwood’s charges see 3 counts of causing a pistillate 13 oregon implicit to prosecute successful a non-penetrative intersexual activity, 1 number of inciting a lad nether 13 to prosecute successful intersexual activity, 7 counts of intersexual battle connected a pistillate and 3 counts of causing a kid nether 13 to ticker a intersexual act, the Daily Mail reported.

He is besides accused of 3 counts of assaulting a miss nether 13 by touching, 2 counts of inciting a girl nether 13 to prosecute successful intersexual enactment involving penetration and 3 counts of assaulting a pistillate 13 and implicit by penetration

Westwood’s different credits see enactment movie Outlawed, thriller Angel City and abbreviated Leaper.

The proceedings is expected to past a month.

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