A former teacher at one
of Britain’s top public schools has been jailed for three years after admitting
using hidden cameras to spy on scores of pupils.
Jonathan
Thomson-Glover, 53, who taught German and was head of house Clifton College in
Bristol for more than 30-years, pleaded guilty to 36 counts of making, taking
and possessing indecent images of children.
The charges related to
more than 120 victims filmed by hidden cameras at the £30,000 a year boarding
school and at an address in Cornwall over a 16-year period.
Thomson-Glover, of
Wadebridge, Cornwall, pleaded guilty when he appeared before Judge David
Ticehurst at Taunton Crown Court.
The judge told him:
"You are a man looking at a life that is now in ruins. That life was a
good life and you have made a positive contribution.
"It is a life now
reduced to rubble as a result of your fatal flaw. You are the author of your
own misfortune and there can be little sympathy for you.
"It is impossible
to calculate the harm and damage you may have caused to those who trusted you
or were in your care."
Thomson-Glover remained
emotionless as he was led from the dock.
He was ordered to sign
the Sex Offenders' Register indefinitely and banned from working with children
on his release.
He was arrested last
year after it was alleged he had installed cameras around the school to spy on
boys.
Police
said there was no evidence the alleged crimes involved any contact offences
with pupils and no other staff at the school were thought to have been
involved.
-Telegraph
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