A PE teacher sexually abused a pupil on a weekly basis from the moment he joined as an 11-year-old boy. 

Malcolm Blackmore, now 82, has been jailed for a second time for sexual offences committed against young boys while he was head of PE at Albany Comprehensive School in Bell Lane, Enfield. 

In 2017 he was jailed for five years for a series of attacks against two young boys between 1982 and 1985.

Blackmore served his sentence and was released, but he has now been given an additional five-and-a-half-year prison sentence after a third victim came forward. 

The third victim described how Blackmore was regarded by pupils as “someone not to be messed with”. 

Weeks into his first term at secondary school Blackmore groped his penis during a PE lesson, Wood Green Crown Court heard. 

From that moment on Blackmore sexually abused the boy on “essentially a weekly basis during term time” for six years, Judge Tim Godfrey said. 

The offending took place over seven years in the 1980s, around the same time that Blackmore was abusing two other pupils. 

In a statement read out in court on Friday (October 25), the third victim said: “I was so young and naïve and living in fear. There was no-one I could talk to and express my worries to.”   

He added: “What makes me so sad is that this abuser had a reputation among young boys. The school didn’t investigate what was going on and neither did the teachers.”   

Albany Comprehensive has since been demolished but Blackmore continued to work there until his retirement.    

Malcolm BlackmoreMalcolm Blackmore (Image: Met Police)

Judge Godfrey, sentencing Blackmore, said: “It is clear that you targeted [the victim] as a boy you could abuse because you identified him as a reserved child, unlikely to resist or report you. 

“It appears you targeted two other boys in a similar way, the victims of the offences tried in 2017.” 

Blackmore continues to deny any offending and indulges in victim blaming, Judge Godfrey said. 

The judge noted that there was a prospect that Blackmore will die during this latest sentence, but noted the context that he continued to live as a respected family man for years after the offending, whilst the victims suffered from life-altering trauma due to the abuse.