Teacher caught with thousands of child pictures was ‘safeguarding lead’

An assistant headteacher caught with 11,500 images and videos of children is facing jail. Gareth Mellor, 43, was tracked down by NCA investigators after making a Bitcoin payment for indecent images of children through an encrypted cloud storage service. National Crime Agency officers his email address had been used to set up accounts on other sites in an attempt to acquire such material. Mellor, who was also the safeguarding lead at a high school in Wakefield, west Yorkshire, was arrested…