Headteacher jailed for child sex offences

A headteacher has been jailed for inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

Dr Neal Mcgowan, the former headteacher of Gracemount High in Edinburgh, was jailed for ten months for the offences which took place while he was working at a school in Essex at the beginning of 2016.

The 54-year-old, of Dickonsfield,edinburgh,pleaded guilty to two offences of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

Mcgowan also admitted two offences of making indecent photographs of the boy.

Judge Emma Peters sentenced him to ten months in prison at Chelmsford Crown Court.

She also ordered him to sign the sex offenders’ register for ten years.

Mcgowan will automatically be on the barring list and will never be able to teach again.