Deputy head: Martin Goldberg, 46, was found dead a day after police questioned him over allegations that he had purchased child pornography from abroad A paedophile deputy headmaster who secretly filmed his pupils may have been assessed as a ‘low risk’ by detectives, it was claimed today. Essex Police began probing allegations that Martin Goldberg, of Thorpe Hall School in Great Wakering, had bought material online which may have included images of naked teenage boys. Mr Goldberg, who taught at the £10,000-a-year private school, was found dead the day after they spoke to him at his £360,000 four-bedroom home in Shoeburyness, where he lived alone.
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Martin Goldberg taught at Thorpe Hall School in Great Wakering, Essex
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Essex Police had been alerted to concerns about him nine months earlier
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Ceop received information on him 2012, but had taken a year to pass it on
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Officers found hundreds of images they believe came from hidden camera
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75 indecent images from school's male changing rooms were recovered
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465 such images from local swimming pool and 38 from two other locations
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Mr Goldberg, 46, was single and lived alone in a £360,000 detached house
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