Albrighton actor found guilty of all 26 sex crimes including rape

The jury at Wolverhampton Crown Court took less than two days to find 24-year-old actor Alexander Westwood guilty of all 26 charges.

Westwood, of Holybush Road, Albrighton, was found guilty of sexually abusing a girl multiple times, sexually abusing a boy, raping a teenage actress he was teaching and abusing other pupils.

Westwood's criminality stretches back to when he was ten-years-old.  The first charge related to his tenth birthday - that is the age of when criminality begins in the UK. His first victim was four years younger than him and prosecutor Andrew Wallace said there could have been "hundreds of charges" if every sexual assault was logged as they occurred at least once a week for seven years.

The court heard Westwood apologised to his victim in a letter, but when criminal proceedings started, Westwood claimed his father had forced him to write the apology.