May 2016 Former Tory councillor & teacher jailed for child abuse images & Class A drugs The deputy head at a leading independent Catholic school who watched child sexual abuse images and movies at gay drug-fuelled ‘chemsex’ parties has been jailed for 33 months. Peter Allott, 37, was part of a paedophile ring who shared hundreds of vile images of children as young as two-years-old being abused. The deputy head at St Benedict’s School in Ealing was caught with nearly 400 depraved videos and pictures, including some he stored in his office at school. After his arrest, Allott, a former Tory councillor, confessed he was addicted to drugs and child sexual abuse images and would regularly share indecent images on gay dating website Grindr. He and other paedophiles would swap more pictures and videos in online forums and then watch together at the chemsex parties, Blackfriars crown court heard. Allott has pleaded guilty to five child and extreme porn offences and one charge of possessing class A drugs, for an MDMA pill found at his flat in the school grounds. Judge John Hillen said Allott was a “high-flier” who had excelled academically and became well-thought of in the church, local politics, and in teaching but that is now destroyed. “You were leading in effect a double life”, he said. “Over the weekend you were engaged in chemsex parties using crystal meth and M-cat, having consensual sex with multiple partner but also watching these images and collecting them on various electronic devices. “On Monday morning you would put on your suit and be the brilliant, high-flying deputy head master – a split personality and divided life. “But the besuited deputy headmaster was a lie because the other side of you life was one of debauchery.” Daniel Taylor, defending, said Allott became lonely when he became deputy headteacher at the school in 2012, and descended into chemsex parties, drugs, and child porn following the death of his mother and grandmother. “He started to engage in seeking homosexual company through online dating site Grindr, involving him meeting other men and engaging in taking class A drugs including crystal meth and M-cat (mephedrone)”, said prosecutor Michael Shaw. “In order to attract them, he would while engaged in online conversation raise the question of child abuse. If they expressed an interest he would offer to show them images. “He had a cross-section of images of different sexes and ages to show to prospective partners on the basis it would arouse them and lead to them taking an interest in him.” Allott confessed that at times he was spending £600-a-week on drugs, and was regularly attending chemsex parties at weekends. “He found himself in a spiral of addiction to drugs and participating in chemsex parties with like-minded individuals”, said Mr Shaw. “He would effectively binge on drugs over a weekend, engage in viewing these images with like-minded individuals.” When quizzed about the pictures of very young children being abused, Allott said he would be “surprised if some of them were still alive” but said he did not personally enjoy them.  Mr Taylor said Barnsley-born Allott was sexually abused as a 12-year-old during a trip out picking blackberries, but he had not told anyone about it until years later.  He studied history and politics at Hull University and gained a second degree in theology at the University of Durham.  He became an economic and politics teacher at St Benedict’s when aged 25, and was elected to Ealing Council for the Conservatives in 2006.  After a stint studying in Cambridge, Allott returned to St Benedict’s and was at the time of his arrest studying for a doctorate.  In a statement, the school said it was “shocked and saddened” by Allott’s crimes: “We reiterate that there remains no evidence any pornographic material was found on school computers or that any other member of the school community have been involved in or exposed to the material that Mr Allott was using.” Allott, of Marchwood Crescent, Ealing, pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children, one charge of distributing indecent images of children, one count of possessing extreme pornography, and one charge of possessing class A drugs.  He will be the subject of a sexual offences prevention order for the next ten years, and will be on the sex offenders register.  March 2016 Former Tory councillor & teacher admits child abuse images & Class A drugs charges A former deputy headteacher at a Catholic school in Ealing has pleaded guilty to possessing indecent images of children, extreme pornography and Class A drugs. Peter William Allott, of Marchwood Crescent, Ealing, was charged with three counts of making indecent images of children, plus one of distributing indecent images of children, one of possessing extreme pornography, and another of possessing controlled Class A drug MDMA. He entered his plea at a hearing at Blackfriars Crown Court on Thursday (March 24). The now 37-year-old is due to be sentenced on May 5 at the same court. At the time of his arrest by officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA) on December 7, he was the deputy head teacher at St Benedict’s Catholic Independent Day School in Ealing and has since resigned. The former Tory councillor who served on the Perivale ward from 2006 to 2010 was charged on December 8, and appeared at Ealing Magistrates Court the following day. The NCA said he was identified after intelligence was received that an individual had been using video conferencing facilities to share indecent images of children with other paedophiles around the UK.