Craig Wood 58

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A DISGRACED paedo maths teacher at one of Scotland's top private schools has been jailed for making his own child porn - recording girls as young as nine on webcam chats.

Craig Wood, 52, who worked at Hutchesons' Grammar School in Glasgow, pleaded guilty to three charges of involvement with indecent images of children and was caged for three years.

He was caught with almost 1,000 indecent images of girls between aged nine and 15, created using apps called 'Flashing' and 'Penis Pokey'.

Wood also made videos - some which lasted as long as two hours - in which he exposed himself to girls after watching them perform sex acts.

Among Woods's sordid stash was a 12-minute video of a girl aged between 13 and 15 performing sex acts on herself while "interacting and/or taking direction" from someone on the other end of a web cam.

Last month he admitted making "indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of children" at his home in Paisley between August 3, 2014 and February 23, 2017.

He also admitted charges of possessing child porn and forcing children to expose themselves to him.

He has lost his job as a teacher and faces being struck off after being caught with 959 indecent images.

Some of them were at the most extreme end of the scale.

There were so many victims of Wood's horrific online behaviour that prosecutors were unable to say how many children were involved.

A former teacher at £11,000-per-year Hutcheson's, Wood previously worked at Renfrewshire Council-run Paisley Grammar.

He was jailed at Paisley Sheriff Court and placed on the sex offenders register for life.

Wood was slammed by Susan Sinclair, the judge who sentenced him, who said: Over a period of two-and-a-half years you were able to contact females between the age of nine and 15, in the context of some form of web communication.

"In the course of which you have exposed yourself to these children and created videos of this and their participation in it, as a result of information sent by you.

"You used this knowledge to target the groups concerned.

"There is no alternative but to impose a sentence of imprisonment."

Wood showed no emotion when he was led away in handcuffs.

A spokesperson for Hutchesons’ Grammar School said: "A member of staff at the Secondary School was immediately suspended when we became aware of the criminal charges.
"He no longer works at the school having left last year.

"Police Scotland has advised us that our pupils and staff have not been, and are not, at risk.

"All the relevant and required checks were carried out at his time of employment. These were satisfactory."