A ‘predatory’ actor who appeared in Netflix’s Sex Education has been jailed for 15-and-a-half years after being convicted of sex crimes against women and children.

Alexander Westwood, who also starred in BBC’s Doctors, was found guilty of 26 sex offences – including raping a teenage girl during acting classes.

The 24-year-old actor was found to have committed a string of depraved sex offence dating back to when he was just ten.

A court heard Westwood forced pupils in his drama class to read Shakespeare and engage in role-play scenarios naked.

He also filmed one aspiring actress naked on his iPad, before trying to bill her family for £18,000 when she started missing his lessons after he sexually abused her.

The warped sex offender also would create sick ‘game shows’ with children, forcing them to watch pornography and undress.

Westwood, who starred in 17 episodes of Netflix’s Sex Education, was described as a ‘supreme manipulator’ who used his stardom to prey on victims ‘out of habit’.

He was convicted at Wolverhampton Crown Court in December and jailed at the same court today to spontaneous applause from the public gallery.

Sex Education actor Alexander Westwood, 24, has been sentenced to XX years in jail for 26 sex attacks on aspiring actresses and children. He is pictured smirking in a mugshot released by police 

Alexander Westwood pictured leaving Wolverhampton Crown Court on November 21, 2024

Westwood, who also starred in BBC’s Doctors, was found to have committed a string of heinous sex offence dating back to when he was just ten 

He will spend four years on licence after he is released, was given a 26-year restraining order from all his victims and a sexual harm order for the same amount of time. 

Prosecutor Andrew Wallace KC said ‘sexual predator’ Westwood could have been charged with 77 serious sexual assaults but for ease of sentencing they had been reduced to 26 counts.

His trial heard how he sexually abused one girl multiple times, also abused a boy and raped a teenage actress.

The first of the 26 sex offences relates to his tenth birthday – the age at which criminality begins in the UK – when one victim was aged just six.

Today, his victims bravely took the stand to reveal the pain he had caused them and how he had ruined their lives.

Westwood, dressed in a grey suit, smirked in the dock before the hearing as some of his victims held hands offering support to one another.

Three young women took it in turns to read their victim impact statements to the court in front of a packed public gallery and their former tormentor in the dock.

One victim, who suffered over seven years of abuse totalling 36 assaults, told the court: ‘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 my life. 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 sobbed as they said: ‘My relationships are suffering, I am untrusting in relationships. I worried if I had married him and had children could I have kept them safe?

‘Alexander is a very manipulative person and he has ruined my life.

‘I feel it is something I can not fix. I will have to live with this for the rest of my life.’

Prosecutor Andrew Wallace KC said ‘sexual predator’ Westwood could have been charged with 77 serious sexual assaults but for ease of sentencing they had been reduced to 26 counts 

Westwood was described in court by one of his victims as ‘a very manipulative person’ who ‘ruined’ their life

Westwood pictured outside Wolverhampton Crown Court on November 21, 2024

She sobbed as she added finally: ‘He has ruined my life and other peoples lives and he does not care about people.’

Another victim, who Westwood raped 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.’