NUDE PICS RUGBY COACH BANNED FROM TEACHING

A SCHOOL rugby coach has been banned from teaching after a fitness to practise panel found he asked girls as young as 13 for “nude pictures”.

Gavin Williams, 34, who was employed as a rugby partnership officer at Aberdare Community School in South Wales for six years, messaged eight girls on Instagram and Snapchat making sexual comments about their bodies, and sent them topless photos of himself.

The support teacher asked one young girl, referred to as Learner A, for “pictures of her pretty face” and “rude ones of her boobs”.

He asked another girl words to the effect of “do you send nude pictures of yourself?”.

He told another pupil “I bet you’re a naughty girl” and said: “I thought you would only go for boys with big willies.”

A picture he sent to one girl of his face and chest while lying on a bed was accompanied by a message which read: “You should be here.”

The Education Workforce Council (EWC) also found Mr Williams, a

Welsh Rugby Union hub officer, took a group of female students on a “school trip” to Aberavon beach in Port Talbot without permission.

Another time he drove one girl to the opticians in the middle of the school day, before lying to another teacher that she was his cousin.

Mr Williams was arrested by South Wales Police on November 23 2019 over allegations of sexual communications with a child and around 200,000 downloads from his various mobile phones were then reviewed, during which comments he made to Learners A, B, G, I, J, K, L and N were discovered.

Some of the girls described feeling “freaked out” by the messages.

After telling one of the girls that another teacher at the school had made sexual comments about her, Mr Williams admitted in his police interview he had lied and referred to the message as “banter”, claiming he had been “winding her up”.

Mr Williams was banned from teaching in Wales to “protect learners,” the panel said.