Former school vice-principal ordered to pay damages after 'sexting' pupil in landmark UK court case

Damages for so-called “sexting” have been awarded by a UK court for the first time, in a case involving the ex-vice-principal of Diana, Princess of Wales’s former school.

William Whillock, former vice-principal of The New School in West Heath near Sevenoaks, Kent, was handed a three-year community order in 2010 after admitting possessing indecent images of a female teenage pupil who he encouraged to send sexually-charged pictures.