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Three suspended over school porn video
By Humfrey Hunter, Evening Standard Last updated at 00:00am on 28.05.03Three teenage pupils have been suspended from their public school after a camera was secretly set up to film two of them having sex.
Paul Doran-Jones, 17, and James Haskell, 18, videoed Doran-Jones romping naked with his 17-year-old girlfriend in a boys' dormitory at Wellington College in Crowthorne, Berks.
The girl, who had no idea she was being filmed, was "furious" when she discovered that Doran-Jones and Haskell, a former England Under-18 rugby captain, had shown the video to other students in the £19,000-a-year school's common room.
One pupil who saw the video, recorded by a camera hidden in a cupboard, said: "It was full-on stuff. The younger boys were banned from seeing it. It's fair to say that it was obviously not the first time for either Paul or his girlfriend."
Another pupil said the pair were having a "casual relationship". "The boys showed the film to their friends. Paul's girlfriend had no idea, but found out - she was upset at first and then furious," the pupil added.
The girl, who is blonde, 6ft tall and on the books of a modelling agency, "stormed round and grabbed the film" as soon as she heard about it, the pupil said. She is believed to have since destroyed the recording.
But rumours about the video had already begun to spread and teachers quickly found out about it. Haskell and Doran-Jones were hauled before headmaster Hugh Monro and both were suspended after admitting what had happened.
The girl, a lacrosse-player, was also suspended for breaking the school's no-sex rule. All three will be allowed back to sit their A-levels and are currently studying at home. All come from well-off families in the Home Counties.
A school insider said: "The girl has been made a laughing stock and cannot face anybody. This could destroy her. What the boys did was despicable and borders on the criminal."
The pupils' parents were contacted after the incident two weeks ago and have since been "very supportive" to their children. Police have not been involved.
Haskell is now in the England Under-19 squad and is also on the books of Wasps rugby club in London. He said from his family's £1 million home near Bracknell: "I have nothing to say."
In his school profile Haskell lists his favourite food and drink as Guinness and oysters He is preparing for A-levels in politics, English literature, history and classical civilisation.
Doran-Jones is understood to have been previously been disciplined after being caught in the girls' living area.
Wellington College bursar Martin Sherwin said: "Three upper-sixth pupils were involved in an incident involving indecent behaviour. The pupils in question have been suspended by the school, but will be allowed to sit their public exams."
Old boys of the school include the Bishop of Oxford, the Rt Rev Richard Harries, television journalist Peter Snow, Pop Idol winner Will Young, impressionist Rory Bremner and 15 Victoria Cross holders. Its motto is "Heroum filii", meaning "sons of heroes".
The school has 750 boys aged 13-18 and 50 girls in the sixth form.
In 1996 seven 14-year-old boys were expelled after the exposure of a drugs and theft ring.
