A “manipulative and predatory” actor who appeared in Netflix’s Sex Education has been found guilty of 26 sex offences, including against children and two pupils he gave acting classes to.
Alexander Westwood, from Albrighton in Shropshire, had a fascination with pornography from a young age, his trial heard.
He denied 26 offences, including raping a school girl who came to him for acting tuition and sexually assaulting a child over an eight year period.
He will be sentenced at Wolverhampton Crown in February.
Jurors heard Westwood, who also appeared in the BBC’s Doctors series, was a “rotten apple” and his repeated sexual offending was “a habit, a lifestyle”.
“He is a predator,” prosecutor Andrew Wallace said.
Speaking of two teenage girls who came to him for help with acting, Mr Wallace said one was “forced to act out the most inappropriate scenes” while the second – following her “dream” of going from school to drama college in Birmingham – was systematically abused by him.
“As fame beckons, he met two impressionable 16 year olds and used his revered position to abuse them,” he said.
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