A rapist Sex Education star found guilty of dozens of sex crimes has been jailed ahead of his sentencing next week for breaking his bail conditions.
Alexander Westwood, 24, who also starred in BBC’s Doctors, was convicted of 26 sex offences against women and children including raping a teenage girl.
The actor, 24, was found to have committed a string of heinous crimes dating back to when he was just ten.
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.
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.
After his conviction at Wolverhampton Crown Court in December, Westwood was granted bail ahead of a sentencing hearing on February 25.
But he was remanded in custody before the hearing after it emerged he had broken the conditions of his bail.
It is understood Westwood, of Albrighton in Wolverhampton, was arrested and put behind bars last week.
His latest offence will be added to his catalogue of crimes which could see him jailed for up to 15 years.
His trial earlier 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.
Westwood, who had a ‘fascination’ with pornography, also forced a girl to drink his urine during a seven-year campaign of abuse.
Andrew Wallace, prosecuting, Westwood’s sexual offending ‘became a lifestyle’.
He told jurors: ‘If we were to list every instance there would be hundreds of charges.’
The mother of another teenage victim said her daughter had attended lessons at the actor’s flat alone in 2021.
She told of how she was forced to have sex during classes and filmed naked on Westwood’s iPad.
A friend of one of his victims said: ‘He should never have been given bail in the first place.
‘But at least he is behind bars at last. He got to spend Christmas at home when he should have been in jail.
‘I’m sure all his victims are happy such a manipulative man cannot damage their lives anymore.’