UK CPS: former substitute teacher used AI to turn students' social media photos into sexual deepfakes and secretly filmed them; sentenced to six years

The UK Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said that Abusali Rahman, a 37-year-old former supply teacher, was sentenced on October 15 at Bolton Crown Court to six years in prison after admitting 21 child sexual offences, and was given a 20-year sexual harm prevention order. The CPS said he used his position as a teacher to obtain student information, found students on social media, and used their photos to generate sexualized deepfake images, and also secretly filmed students at the school where he taught. Police found on his devices deepfake images that superimposed images of teenagers onto adult bodies or placed them alongside adult sexual content, files recording girls' names and addresses, and searches for how to generate images with AI, how to film covertly without being detected, and how to buy spy cameras. He pleaded guilty on May 28, 2026; CPS prosecutor Alexandra Mann said abusing emerging technology is a serious crime.