UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
By REBECCA CAMBER, CRIME CORRESPONDENT FOR THE DAILY MAIL
The deputy head of a scandal-hit Catholic private school was jailed today after admitting getting hooked on child pornography blowing £600 a week on paedophile drug parties.
Peter Allott, 37, led a double life working as a high-flying devout Christian headteacher, while at the weekends he indulged in drug-fuelled sex orgies, swapping sickening images of children with other perverts.
The Cambridge–educated deputy headteacher became addicted to child sex images and Class A drugs after being introduced to both at ‘chemsex’ parties organised on gay dating app Grindr.
He amassed nearly 400 horrific images of children as young as two, which he kept on his iPhone and on a hard drive in his office at the £15,000-a-year St Benedict’s School.
Investigators also found the Class A drug MDMA, otherwise known as ecstasy, in a raid of his home, a property owned by the school.
The private school in Ealing, West London, which counts comedian Julian Clary, Tory peer Chris Patten and actor Andy Serkis amongst its alumni, has been dogged by scandal after one teacher was convicted of nearly four decades of sexual abuse of children and another priest is still on the run from a child abuse charge.
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