Alexander Westwood has been sentenced to 15-and-a-half years in prison after Oliwia Wudarowicz said he raped her when she was 16 and destroyed her dream of acting. She described a case that did not end with one allegation: Westwood was convicted of sexual offences against her and four other victims.
Wudarowicz, now 21 and living in the West Midlands, said the abuse left her still scrubbing herself hard in the shower and waking from nightmares. She also said Westwood made her feel “dirty,” a word that captures how far the damage has lasted beyond the courtroom.
December 2020 lessons
Wudarowicz said her lessons with Westwood began in December 2020, after her mother met him while renovating his flat. She said the hope was practical: acting tuition might help her win a place at college to study performing arts.
By the third lesson, she said, Westwood was already pushing boundaries. Wudarowicz said he asked her to change in front of him and asked whether she was a virgin. In January 2021, she said he ordered her to masturbate in front of him and raped her four times in total.
August 2021 report
Wudarowicz said she told her mother and police in August 2021, but the case was initially closed because there was not enough evidence. That meant her complaint did not move straight to a conviction, even after she spoke up. The investigation was reopened in April 2023 after other victims came forward, turning one allegation into a wider case.
Westwood’s reach mattered in another way too. Wudarowicz said he had minor roles in ’s Doctors and Netflix’s Sex Education, which helped make him appear credible to a teenager looking for acting training. The case also drew in four other victims, including a girl whose abuse began when she was six, a boy abused when he was between nine and 10, a woman, and a second teenage acting student.
15-and-a-half years
Westwood’s 15-and-a-half-year sentence leaves him in prison, while Wudarowicz is left trying to rebuild a life that she says abuse interrupted before it could properly begin. She is now a drama graduate, but her own account shows how a lesson plan turned into long-term trauma rather than an entry into the profession she wanted.
Her account is the part readers should sit with: the sentence is fixed, but the damage she described is still active. The remaining question is less about punishment than about prevention — how many teenagers are still taking lessons from adults who can cross a line before anyone notices.
