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‘Sex Education’ Background Actor Sentenced to Jail for Rape; Judge Says He Used Career to Prey on Young Girls


Alexander Westwood, a background actor who worked on shows like "Sex Education," has been sentenced to jail for rape.

Alexander Westwood, a 24-year-old British actor who worked on Netflix’s “ Sex Education ” in the background cast, has been sentenced to 15 and a half years in jail for 26 offenses including rape and sexual assault, according to the BBC. The judge presiding over the case said during the sentencing that Westwood “used his minor celebrity status to prey on impressionable, innocent, young girls,” the BBC reports. Between 2010 and 2018, “the victim was made to watch porn, touched and incited to engage in sexual activity” hundreds of times, per the BBC.

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