Married teacher posed as boy, 14, to get young girls to send him explicit photos

A teacher who used a fake Snapchat profile to trick girls as young as 10 to send explicit images to him has been jailed for eight years.

Simon Clark, 46, who was head of French at Alun High School in Mold, north Wales, pretended he was a 14-year-old boy to prey on 26 girls aged 10 to 15.

With the username ‘Jamie_jones6968’, he sent hundreds of messages to dozens of girls, in some cases sending them indecent videos.

Between his victims he received nearly 150 indecent images, of which 26 were in the most serious category.

Clark, a father-of-two from Ellesmere Port in Cheshire, was married at the time of the offending.

His abuse came to light after the mother of one of his victims saw explicit messages on her 12-year-old daughter’s laptop.

Detectives traced the IP address used by ‘Jamie