A TEACHER who admitted downloading indecent images of children had previously worked at Tudor Grange Academy Worcester – but there is no suggestion that his offending in any way involved the school.

Aidan Moss, of Coney Green Close in Great Meadow, Worcester, admitted making indecent images of children, last week.

This included nine category A pictures of children – the most explicit and offensive kind – along 22 category B and 15 category C images.

The 30-year-old formerly taught science at Tudor Grange Academy, a secondary school in Bilford Road, Worcester.

The school said that Moss was suspended from the school in December 2016 following the allegations and sacked in March of this year after more evidence from the police became available.

At the court hearing last Thursday, Worcester magistrates were told that Moss had been addicted to pornography for 10 years and had become desensitised to the content.

He would download images and then delete them shortly after he had used them.

There was no suggestion that Moss had shared the images with other people or that any of his former pupils were victims of his actions.

Moss' offences were revealed when police were called to his address on December 14 in 2016 and seized various devices for accessing the internet.

He will be sentenced at Worcester Crown Court on Friday December 8 as the magistrates decided their powers of punishment were not enough, despite a request from Mark Turnball, defending Moss, that the matter could be dealt with in the magistrates court.

Sam Roach, headteacher of the school said: "Tudor Grange Academy Worcester was made aware of the arrest of Mr Aidan Moss on 14 December 2016, at which point he was immediately suspended from the Academy, in line with our employment policies.

"The academy formally dismissed Mr Moss from his post in March 2017 after receiving further information from the police. 

"During this time we have been liaising closely with the investigating officers who have been able to assure us that his arrest does not relate in any way to any pupils, past or present, at the school. 

"Like all schools, Tudor Grange Academy Worcester has stringent checks and procedures in place to safeguard pupils.

"All staff are vetted using the disclosure and barring service and must attend annual safeguarding training, as well as commit to codes of conduct that include e-safety and acceptable internet use policies."