Educating Cardiff teacher who sexually assaulted a girl, 17, and had indecent images of her is spared jail
Arwyn Davies, who appeared in Channel 4's Educating Cardiff, the documentary series that also featured Gareth Ritter, the assistant head who changed his guilty plea mid-trial after initially denying a 2015 sexual assault.
Gareth Ritter, 44, the assistant head of Willows High School who became a recognisable face on Channel 4's 'Educating Cardiff', was handed a 33-month sentence suspended for 30 months at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court on Wednesday. He changed his guilty plea mid-trial — while giving his own evidence in his defence — after initially denying the 2015 assault on the then 17-year-old.
The judge told Ritter: 'It was a cruel assault on a young woman by an older man who had isolated her in that flat for his own sexual satisfaction.'
Ritter lured the victim to his Cardiff Bay flat under the guise of a brief stop, then cornered her against a wall and kissed her — and was later described as 'giggling' rather than apologising.
The victim only came forward after police contacted her when they found indecent images of her in Ritter's possession; in her impact statement she said: 'It shouldn't have happened and I should have been safe with you.'
