Top private school teacher filmed girls performing sex acts

A teacher from one of Scotland’s top private schools is facing jail for making his own child porn by recording young girls performing sex acts on themselves and exposing his privates to them.

Craig Wood, 52, pleaded guilty to three charges of involvement with indecent images of children.

Wood was a maths teacher at the £11,000-a-year Hutchesons’ Grammar School in Glasgow when he was caught with nearly 1,000 indecent images of girls aged between nine and 15. He has now lost his job and faces being struck off as a teacher after being caught with 959 indecent images of children.

In the videos, Wood exposed himself to girls the same age as the ones he taught, but only after he had watched them expose themselves to him. Wood, who also used to work at Renfrewshire Council-run school Paisley Grammar, convinced the girls to expose themselves to him during webcam chats.

There are too many victims for prosecutors to be able to determine how many children were involved.

The details emerged yesterday when Wood admitted his guilt during a pre-trial hearing at Paisley Sheriff Court.

Among Wood’s sordid collection was a 12-minute video of a girl aged between 13 and 15 performing sex acts on herself while “interacting and/or taking direction” from someone on the other end of a webcam.

Procurator fiscal depute Fiona Holligan said: “All of the moving indecent images were filmed from the Flashing and Penis Pokey apps.”

Wood admitted making “indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of children” at his home in Glenburn, Paisley, between 3 August 2014 and 23 February last year.

He also admitted possessing illegal images between the same dates, as well as a third charge of forcing children to expose themselves to him, and exposing himself to them, during online chats.

The prestigious school in Pollokshields, Glasgow, boasts transport minister Humza Yousaf, TV star Carol Smillie and DJ Ken Bruce as former pupils.

A spokesperson for Hutchesons’ Grammar School said last night: “A member of staff at the secondary school was immediately suspended when we became aware of the criminal charges ... Police Scotland has advised us that our pupils and staff have not been, and are not, at risk.”