Bexley magician and teacher jailed for child sexual abuse

Summarised from News Shopper's report · Updated 15 Oct, 14:44 · Archive

Kevin Doig, 66, was sentenced to two years and two months for sexually abusing a nine-year-old girl.

Kevin Doig, 66, of Maiden Erlegh Avenue in Bexley, was sentenced to two years and two months imprisonment at Woolwich Crown Court on 15 October for engaging in non-penetrative sexual activity with a girl under 13. The abuse took place between September 2024 and March 2025. Doig also pleaded guilty to three charges of possessing indecent images of a child and one charge of possessing prohibited images. The court heard that his devices contained 14 images in the most serious "Category A", 46 in "Category B", 1,767 in "Category C" and 758 prohibited images. He received six months in jail for the indecent images charges and 20 months for the sexual activity offence.

Doig spent 32 years as a schoolteacher before working as an eleven plus tutor, pantomime performer and magician. He was chair of the Young Magicians Club, a youth initiative run by The Magic Circle, from 2011 to 2022, and served as the group's child protection officer for over a decade. The Magic Circle Foundation asked him to resign when the allegation emerged. He will be added to the sex offenders' register for ten years and subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

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• Bexley paedo magician who abused girl & held 1,700 child abuse images jailedKevin Doig from Bexley who sexually abused a nine-year-old girl has been jailed for more than two years.News Shopper · 15 Oct, 14:00

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