Former teacher jailed for sexual assaults

Napier, of Sherborne, Dorset, was jailed at Southwark crown court. Last month the former schoolteacher, who is the half brother of Conservative MP John Whittingdale, pleaded guilty to 28 counts of indecent assault – including many covering “multiple incidents” – and one indecency charge at the school where he worked in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which cannot be named for legal reasons.

Further allegations

At court, he admitted a further two separate historic allegations of indecent assault against two 13-year-old boys after he left the school, the first in 1979 and the second in 1983. Napier stared straight ahead and betrayed no emotion as Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith sentenced him.

The court heard that Napier had carried out a campaign of abuse at the school, grooming and assaulting 21 victims, aged as young as eight, on many occasions.

Speaking in November, after Napier first pleaded guilty, the Labour MP Tom Watson said: “Charles Napier has been a life-long predatory paedophile and a former leading member of PIE [Paedophile Information Exchange]. There are many victims who will be relieved that his past has finally caught up with him.

“I hope other people associated with PIE will be investigated by the police. I hope Napier fully co-operates with the police and their wider inquiries.”