Brit teacher arrested in Spain for ‘secretly filming and sharing graphic footage of schoolgirl’
Spanish cops swooped on the suspect's Spanish home after being tipped off by intelligence services
A BRIT teacher has been arrested in Spain on suspicion of secretly filming "sexual" footage of his female pupil and sharing it online.
The suspect, from Manchester, was held in an international operation that originated in Canada.
Spanish police said the man had secretly filmed his students and shared images, “with clear sexual connotations” over the Internet with other paedophiles.
Detectives swooped on the English teacher, at his home in Valladolid, 120 miles north of the capital Madrid, after a tip-off from Interpol.
Spain’s National Police released a video showing the suspect being led away in handcuffs, while detectives trawled through his computer for evidence.
They found videos and images of a number of students, but the suspect appeared to be “obsessed” with one girl, and had a folder on his computer dedicated to her.
The suspect, who has not been named, shared illegal images and videos on the Internet using a Cloud-based system.
The operation began in Canada, where detectives discovered that an email address based in Spain was being used to share illegal images.
Canadian officers alerted Spain through Interpol.
Spain’s National Police said in a statement: “Our officers have arrested an English teacher who stored and distributed images of child pornography through a storage system on the Cloud.
“The suspect obtained ‘candid’ images of his pupils - taken secretly and with clear sexual connotations - especially one girl with whom he demonstrated a special obsession."
Police in Spain initially tracked the email address to Seville. But they discovered the teacher had moved north to the city of Valladolid.
They said: “Once he was located, an urgent warrant was obtained and his address was searched.
“The investigators found a large number of archives with explicit sexual content involving minors.
“Among the material there were also numerous images obtained by himself of his underage students, which had not been shared by the suspect.
“An analysis of the material showed he had a special interest in one of the girls.
“We are now working to identify all the victims in the images.”