Moment paedophile teacher is arrested in his home for child sex offences as he's jailed for seven years
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A paedophile teacher who encouraged girls to take sexual images of themselves has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years.
Clive Bartram was arrested by the Metropolitan Police at his home in Croydon, south London, in June last year after he was linked to a social media account which was uploading child sex abuse images of children.
The 58-year-old, who was working in a secondary school at the time of the investigation, offered children gift vouchers and other incentives in exchange for indecent images as he communicated directly with his victims online.
He also used photographs of a vulnerable person known to him to create online personas to speak with the children, telling the person it was 'their secret'.
In footage of the arrest Bartram can be seen sitting on his brown leather sofa and fiddling with a TV remote as officers tell him he's being taken into custody.
During a search of his home officers seized mobile phones, laptops and USB devices, with detectives later discovering he had access to another mobile phone which he initially denied possessing.
The device was found in a garden neighbouring his property after it had been thrown out of a window.
Digital forensic investigations uncovered Category A, B and C indecent images of children – all three categories – across multiple devices and cloud-based accounts linked to the former teacher.
Teacher Clive Bartram can be seen sitting on his sofa as officers tell him they are investigating indecent images of children connected to a X account linked to him
The secondary school teacher has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half-years imprisonment and barred from working with vulnerable children and adults
The investigation identified five victims aged between 14 and 16 and safeguarding measures were put in place.
Bartram was later convicted of 13 offences relating to the sexual exploitation of children and indecent images.
He pleaded guilty to two counts of causing or inciting a girl aged 13 to 15 to engage in sexual activity involving penetration and four counts involving non-penetrative sexual activity.
The former teacher also admitted six counts of making indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of a child and one count of causing or inciting the sexual exploitation of a child aged 13 to 17.
As well as his prison sentence, the former teacher has been handed an indefinite sexual harm prevention order and been barred from working with vulnerable children and adults.
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