Abusali Rahman

A former supply teacher has been jailed for six years after admitting taking upskirting photos of pupils.

Abusali Rahman used his iPhone in his top pocket while secretly taking upskirting images of teenagers while working in seven schools, Bolton Crown Court heard.

Rahman, from Salford, Greater Manchester, would also follow behind girls walking up stairs to film them. He also traced youngsters’ social media profiles to “nudify” their images alongside pornography.

The 37-year-old was caught after the mother of one girl came across a picture of her daughter in her school uniform, next to graphic sexual images while she was scrolling on social media platform X, formerly Twitter.

He had also super-imposed one girl’s face on a woman wearing a bikini, and another in a PVC suit, the court heard.

At a hearing in May, Rahman pleaded guilty to 12 counts of taking an indecent photograph/pseudo-photograph of a child, obtained by upskirting.

He also admitted four counts of publishing an obscene article, three counts of making indecent photographs/pseudo photographs of a child using AI-generated images, one count of distributing an indecent image of a child and one count of operating equipment beneath clothing to take images of another without their consent.

Rahman’s crimes took place over nearly two years between December 2023 and June 2025 against 15 girls, all aged between 13 and 16, at several secondary schools in Bury, Bolton and Salford.

One girl who had been identified through Rahman’s use of her social media profile photo suffered comments at school, and told police she felt embarrassed and “weirded out” and another girl was left “disgusted and upset”.

Rahman, a British national of Bangladeshi ethnicity, was also put on the Sex Offenders Register, and given a Sexual Harm Prevention Order banning him from working in schools for 20 years.

Source: UK Database on Facebook