A head teacher who tried to portray himself as a ‘safeguarding champion’ has been jailed after being exposed as a paedophile.

Daniel Chapman, 31, from Chelmsford, was given a two-and-a-half year sentence after police found that he was making and publishing depraved child abuse images.

His youngest victim was just four years old, Essex Police said.

Detective Constable Nick Riley said the six-month investigation ‘involved some of the most horrific social media messaging concerning child abuse that I had ever investigated’.

He continued: ‘Daniel Chapman had taken it upon himself to become a safeguarding champion for the school, whilst he was simultaneously involved in activities which promoted the abuse of children, some of whom were of a similar age to those he was meant to be safeguarding.

‘He portrayed himself as a respectable head teacher, however, was found to have been using messaging applications and social media to engage in making, possessing and publishing indecent images of children as young as four.

‘I am delighted this individual is now paying the price for his appalling actions.

‘Every time an indecent image of a child is viewed, it re-victimises that child over and over again.’

He admitted 12 offences including making indecent photographs of children, publishing obscene articles, and possessing extreme pornographic images.

He has been banned from teaching for life and will be on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years.

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