A former West Sussex teacher who admitted to covertly filming children at private schools has been jailed for three years. Police said Jeremy Fow, 53, of Harrowgate Road, Moortown, Leeds, admitted to a total of ten sexual offences. Fow was sentenced at Hove Crown Court yesterday (March, 10) for filming children in showers at a private school in the county, as well as two others in Wiltshire and Worcestershire. Officers said he also pleaded guilty to possessing indecent images of children. Offences included five offences of voyeurism, four offences of taking indecent images of children and possessing indecent images of children. According to police, the offences took place between 2008 and 2014 while Fow was working as a teacher at schools in Wiltshire, West Sussex and Worcestershire. He will be a registered sex offender for life and was also given a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) to last until further court order, severely restricting his access to digital devices and children. DC Andy Roe said: "In 2018 we received information that Fow may have been engaging in offences involving indecency. "When we searched his address a hard drive and a mobile phone were seized for digital forensic examination. "On the phone were found two videos and on the hard drive there were 39 still images and seven videos. "It became clear that for many years Fow had been covertly videoing young boys for his own sexual gratification. "Not only did the boys not realise this, on some of the recordings can be heard some of their voices, sometimes talking to Fow, totally unaware of what he was doing. "He has now been brought to justice and his opportunity to abuse his position in this way has now been brought to an end." Police emphasise that the schools involved have given full co-operation through the investigation, and that the parents of the children involved have been informed.
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