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Primary school teacher Nigel Leat, 51, filmed the abuse involving five girls in his classroom over the course of five years A primary school teacher who filmed himself sexually abusing young girls in his classroom has been jailed indefinitely. Nigel Leat, 51, filmed the abuse involving five girls over the course of five years at Hillside First School in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. Leat, from Bristol, admitted 36 offences, including attempted rape of a child and sexual assault on children. Bristol crown court heard details last week of how he would molest the girls in one-to-one reading sessions. The predatory paedophile sexually abused girls as young as six, filming the abuse on cameras he had put in place for the purpose. Leat could be heard in the films referring to the girls as “sweetie pie” and “darling” and asking them how much they loved him. The videos, in most of which Leat could be seen, showed girls were abused in the school’s staffroom and a resource room. In the films, which were up to 10 minutes long, Leat could be seen touching them, including when they were changing their clothes to go outside. He also wrote letters to them, asking them to perform sex acts on him. The father-of-two initially denied all the claims against him, but he confessed after police found the films on his home computer. After police arrested him on 13 December last year, they discovered about 30,500 indecent photographs and 720 indecent films in his possession. Judge Neil Ford QC gave Leat an indeterminate sentence, telling him he would have to serve at least eight and a half years before he could be considered for parole. He told Leat: “Your manipulation of the children was clever, cunning and insidious.” Crime guardian.co.uk