UNITED KINGDOM
Metro
Ashitha Nagesh for Metro.co.uk
Saturday 21 May 2016
A formerly respected school teacher pretended to be a teenager online to trick young boys into sexual activity.
Richard Lythall, 35, has now been jailed after police discovered a trove of child abuse images on his computer in March last year.
Officers also found that he had been posing as a 15-year-old boy in order to chat to boys of the same age, and exchange explicit images with them, over a four year period.
As a result of the allegations Lythall, who also worked as a church organist, immediately lost his job at Sir Thomas Boughey High School in Halmerend, Staffs.
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