Avon and Somerset Police has issued a statement after former member of staff Timothy Schofield, brother of Phillip Schofield, was jailed after sexually abusing a teenage boy. Schofield was found guilty of 11 sexual offences involving a child between October 2016 and October 2019, including two of sexual activity with a child, at a trial at Exeter Crown Court.
Schofield is a former civilian staff member at Avon and Somerset Police, working at police headquarters in Portishead. In a statement read outside Bristol Crown Court after the sentencing, Senior Investigating Officer, Det Inp Keith Smith said Schofield's former colleagues were "horrified" by the offences committed.
DI Smith stressed no complaint about Schofield's conduct had been made before the offences were reported in 2021, but officers are on a "mission to root out" all who betray the standards and values of the force. He said Schofield was arrested within 48 hours of the initial report being made.
