March 1999 Perverted teacher had indecent images of children A FORMER Midland head teacher has been fined £1,000 after police uncovered a secret stash of computer child sexual abuse images at his home. Donal Thurlow, whose “demons from his past” fuelled his downfall after he suffered prolonged sexual abuse as a child, posed as a 15-year-old boy in an Internet chat room. He set up a liaison with a Northamptonshire man who was interested in children. Owen Beale, prosecuting, told magistrates that when police discovered 77 pictures on Thurlow’s computer following a raid on his Hennals Avenue home, in Redditch, he said he was trying to understand why adults abused children. Thurlow was a teacher at the Roman Catholic school of St Bede’s Magistrates fined Thurlow (50), ordered him to pay £54 costs and register as a sex offender with police after he admitted possession of the computer images.