Moment paedophile headteacher who abused four girls is arrested at school (video)

A video has been released showing the moment a headteacher who sexually abused four girls was arrested at the secondary school where he worked.

Neil Foden, who was the head of Ysgol Friars in North Wales when he committed shocking 19 offences over a four-year period between 2019 and 2023, was convicted following a trial in May.

The court heard how the 66-year-old had a “sexual obsession with young teenage girls” and had been “determined” to satisfy his “perverted desires,” which included a urination fetish.

A police officer’s bodycam captured Foden’s arrest inside a room at the school in September 2023.

Footage shows him standing with his hands in his pockets as the officer tells him: “Mr Foden, unfortunately, I need to arrest you on suspicion of sexual touching of a child and sexual communications with a child.”

He replies “Right” before being read his rights, to which he just says: “Okay.”

He would later be found guilty.

On Monday, July 1, he was sentenced to 17 years behind bars at Mold Crown Court.

Judge Rhys Rowlands described Foden as a domineering and bombastic character who was looked up to by many, but “managed to hide a dreadful secret”.

Judge Rowlands told him: “Your behaviour was born out of your arrogant sense of your self-worth, such that you believed no-one would stand up to you.

“It is clear that you have no remorse. You have not shown an ounce of contrition for what you did and you have no insight into the undoubted very serious harm you have caused both to individual victims and to their families.”

“He exploited both my body and mind and I feel tired and constantly sick as a result,” one victim, who appeared in court to read a statement, said.

Another victim, who attended his sentencing in person, said: “I feel that when he made me go to court to give my evidence he wanted to hurt me for reporting him and, instead of justice, he wanted revenge.”

A statement made by a third girl abused by Foden was read to the court, in which she said: “I believed him when he said he loved me and I was the only one he wanted.

“What Mr Foden has done is evil. It’s hit me hard and I’ll never forgive him.”

During Foden’s trial, the court was shown a video of him holding hands with one of the girls, child A, as she sat in the back of his car, while he was in the driver’s seat.

Foden was arrested after child A showed an adult a photo of them together and screenshots of messages about oral sex.

The court heard he would pick her up in his car and drive them to secluded areas.

He encouraged child A to hug and kiss him, telling her she must “take it to the grave and not tell anyone”.

They exchanged messages on WhatsApp, with Foden telling the girl to delete the messages daily.

The messaging and contact soon became sexualised, with Foden sexually assaulting her several times, persisting even when she tried to stop him.

Another complainant, child E, told police she referred to Foden as “Mr P”, for perfect, while he called her “his little sex toy”.

She also described meeting him in his BMW car, which had personalised number plates, and driving to remote lay-bys and country lanes “for him to have a play with me”.

He sexually assaulted her many times in his car and also in hotels when she accompanied him on trips away overnight.

After Foden was arrested at the school in September 2023, police later found a pair of purple and black lace handcuffs in the boot of his car which had DNA present matching Foden and the youngster.

Foden was convicted of pinching the thigh of child B and putting his hand under her clothing and of placing his hands at the top of child C’s inner thighs.

He was cleared of one count of sexual activity with a child, where he was alleged to have touched the bottom of child D.

Watch the video of his arrest below.

Dyma'r foment y cafodd Neil Foden ei arestio gan yr heddlu ym mis Medi'r llynedd ar amheuaeth o gam-drin plant, cyn cael ei gludo i'r ddalfa.

Cafodd ei ddedfrydu i 17 mlynedd o garchar yn Llys y Goron yr Wyddgrug ddydd Llun.

Fideo: Heddlu Gogledd Cymru pic.twitter.com/jm78vqM6fD

— Newyddion S4C (@NewyddionS4C) July 1, 2024