July 2022

Paedo teacher caught filming up 14-year-old girls’ skirts in GCSE exam avoids jail

A perverted maths teacher was given a suspended sentence after filming up the skirts of girls aged 14 and 15 during their mock GCSE exam.

Shocked students noticed what Stuart Norris, 48, was doing and told other teachers.

Teachers demanded that the father-of-three show them his phone but he walked out, deleted incriminating evidence and denied any wrongdoing.

Luckily, Leicestershire Police technology experts were able to find evidence of videos shot during the exam in June 2021.

There were also snaps from 2017 showing a girl in the same school uniform wearing a short skirt, sat at her desk with her bare legs crossed

Those images were not deemed illegal but were drawn to the attention of Judge Keith Raynor at Leicester Crown Court on Monday (July 25) when Norris appeared for sentencing.

The experts also found a secure internet drive with numerous illegal child sexual abuse pictures including animated cartoon images of children.

Earlier this year Norris changed his pleas, admitting two counts of voyeurism of underage girls, two counts of possessing indecent images of children and one of having a prohibited image.

The court heard Norris, of Hinckley, Leicestershire, had been a maths teacher for 25 years.

He was married but estranged from his wife and having an affair with another employee of the school.

Prosecutor Steven Taylor explained: “It was noted by one girl that when he was approaching female students he was carrying his mobile phone and it was recording.

“He approached five girls – even if they hadn’t sought his assistance with anything.”

Norris was called in for a meeting with the headteacher and the deputy later that day.

He refused to show them his phone, claiming it contained a “personal” picture of the woman at the school he was having an affair with.

The videos were never recovered but “thumbnail” images – stills from the two videos – proved Norris had filmed up the skirts of at least two girls.

The police experts also found “can the police seize your phone” in his search history for that day.

Representing Norris, Zaheer Afzal said his client had no previous convictions and was “deeply ashamed”.

Judge Raynor said the crimes were made worse because they were clearly premeditated.

He said: “You had gone into that room with your mobile phone and I’m satisfied you had done that because you had decided to take upskirt images of girls taking that mock exam.”

Norris was given a 10-month jail sentence, suspended for 24 months, and a five-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

He was ordered to spend 40 days with probation officers and a further 90 days on the Horizon programme for sex offenders. He must also pay £700 court costs and a £156 victim surcharge.