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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Wesley Holmes

Paedo teacher told ex-pupil he wanted to 'lay her down naked' in sick Snapchat messages

A perverted teacher bombarded a young girl with sick messages, telling her "I always used to wonder what kind of underwear you had on".

John Wickham, also known as John Lanason, 38, tracked down his former pupil on Snapchat after leaving his job as a maths teacher at St John Plessington Catholic Secondary School in Bebington in 2021. The conversation quickly turned sexual, and the girl reported what was happening to her mum, who continued to exchange messages with Wickham before calling the police.

The victim's mum told The ECHO: "At first I didn't believe it. I thought it was her friends messing around - a schoolteacher wouldn't do that. Then he sent a photograph of his face to confirm it was him. I took my daughter's phone and I let him believe it was her he was talking to. Disgusting things, asking her what bra size she took, that he'd love to take her to bed, lay her down naked. He wanted her to send videos; sick, perverse ones as you can imagine."

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