Jacob Leland, who taught Russian, jailed for three years for sexually assaulting student on school trip
The headteacher of Eton College has apologised and said he was “appalled” after a former teacher was jailed for sexually assaulting a pupil.
Jacob Leland, who taught Russian, was jailed on Friday for three years and three months for sexually assaulting one of his students during a school trip.
Leland, then aged 23, carried out the assaults in 2012 while working at the prestigious all-boys boarding school. He first assaulted the pupil after inviting him and his friends over to his flat, where he gave them alcohol and cigarettes.
After the victim’s friends left, he kissed the boy before placing the pupil’s hands over his own groin, Reading crown court heard. Leland committed a third sexual assault on the schoolboy by performing oral sex on him during a school trip away from the school.
