Headmaster of Queen’s Windsor Castle school admits he is a paedophile as court hears he sexually abused boys in his Latin classes and watched them shower naked [Article From 6/12/16]
Anthony Brailsford, 69, dramatically changed his plea in court today
A HEADMASTER at the Queen’s school at Windsor Castle has admitted he is a paedophile after a court heard he sexually abused boys in his Latin classes and watched them shower naked.
Anthony Brailsford, 69, who was a Latin teacher at the prestigious St George’s School, initially denied indecently assaulting a young boy and rubbing his buttocks.
Former acting headmaster and Latin teacher Anthony Brailsford outside Reading Crown Court todayCredit: INS News
But the pensioner dramatically changed his plea to ‘guilty’ part way through a trial after a judge ordered that the jury should be told he had already admitted possessing indecent images of children.
Brailsford, who was acting headmaster at the time of the attacks, today admitted three counts of indecent assault on the same boy at the school between January 1997 and March 1998.
Jurors were to be told that he had admitted two counts of making indecent images of children – which were mostly of naked, pre-pubescent boys – at a court hearing in 2014.
The judge, referring to a statement from the boy victim, said: “The defendant required him to take work to his desk.
“He was asked questions. Then it was alleged he placed his hand on [the victim’s] neck and ran it down his back and patted his backside.
“It would remain there while he was questioned by the teacher.”
