Actor accused of sexually abusing pupils demanded £18,000 for missed lessons

The mother of one of Alexander Westwood’s alleged suspects sexual abuse The victims believed she owed him £18,000 for his acting lessons after pulling out because she was told she was being sexually abused.

The teenager took lessons from the former BBC Doctors actor lived alone in 2021 and claims she was forced to have sex during classes and filmed naked on Westwood’s iPad.

Westwood, 24, of Holyhead Road, is on trial Wolverhampton Crown Court on 26 counts of sexual assault against two children and former students of his drama school, including rape.

The jury, consisting of seven men and five women, watched excerpts from a police interrogation of his student, in which she accused him of repeatedly sexually assaulting her.