Former Kidderminster teacher is jailed for three historic sexual assaults dating to eighties
A former Kidderminster teacher has been jailed for three years for historic sex offences.
David Wilkinson, aged 77, was found guilty following a trial in September of the charges dating back to his time as a schoolteacher at Wolverley Secondary School in the 1980s.
Wilkinson was convicted of three counts of indecent assault on a girl under the age of 16 years at a sentencing hearing at Worcester Crown Court on Wednesday.
The jury heard evidence including testimony from two of Wilkinson's former pupils and from the teacher himself. He had sexual relations with girls he taught, but insisted they were consensual relationships after their 16th birthdays and that he had not assaulted them.
Investigating officer DC Nasri, of West Mercia Police's North Worcestershire CID, said: “We are pleased to have obtained this custodial sentence today for an offender who perpetrated sexual abuse during his employment as a schoolteacher.
“He abused his position of trust to prey on a person in his care, and I would like to pay tribute to the bravery and resilience of his victim who has suffered for many years before the case came to the courts.
“We hope the verdict shows we will always listen to anyone who has concerns about or has been a victim of sexual abuse and prosecute where appropriate, no matter how long ago that was.”
Wilkinson, of Vinsac, Le Vigeant, France, was initially charged with numerous offences including eight counts of sexual assault of a child, two counts of rape and making an indecent photograph of a child, however, the jury only found him guilty of three counts of sexual assault dating to the 1980s and cleared him of the remaining matters.
He has been jailed for three years and was made subject to the sex offender's register indefinitely.
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