Composer Alex Woolf convicted of posting social media images on to porn sites
Friday, August 20, 2021
The former winner of BBC Young Composer of the Year has been given a 20-week prison sentence and ordered to compensate his victims £100 each.
The 26-year-old composer Alex Woolf has been convicted of stealing images of women from social media and uploading them to pornographic websites.
He downloaded images of 15 women, asked for them to be pasted onto porn actresses' bodies on Reddit, then uploaded the results to adult sites.
Woolf has been ordered to undertake a 40-day rehabilitation programme, to do 40 sessions with a sex offender programme and 180 hours of unpaid work.
He must pay each of his victims £100 in compensation.
Organisations in the classical music industry, including Grange Park Opera and the Royal Philharmonic Society, are cutting ties with the composer.