QE2 Teacher Gets Year In Prison

Wednesday, 20 January 2010 00:00

Today at Southwark Crown Court former QE2 Head of English John James Barefield was sentenced to a year in prison after being convicted of two counts of attempting to engage in sexual activity in the presence of a child.

In addition to the sentence Mr Barefield has been disqualified from working with children and placed on the sex offenders’ register for 5 years.

Barefield was caught out in the first instance when he performed the acts thinking the girl at the other end of the webcam was 14, when actually she was a covert Metropolitan Police Officer.

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