TOPLESS photos of a Harrow School art teacher were “stolen” and passed around by hundreds of pupils.

The saucy snaps of Joanne Salley, an ex-girlfriend of former England rugby star Matt Dawson, were on a memory stick taken by a pupil while a teacher was out of class.

When he realised what was on them he showed friends and before long the pictures had spread around the £29,670-a-year boarding school, in High Street, Harrow-on-the-Hill.

A large number of boys are thought to have seen the raunchy photo shoot, taken by a part-time photography teacher at Harrow.

Barnaby Lenon, the headteacher, said: “Joanne Salley is a long-standing and successful art teacher at Harrow who has, in the past, been a model.

“Photographs of her modelling were taken by a professional photographer who also teaches photography part-time at the school.

“These pictures were stolen and passed on to some pupils at the school without the agreement of the photographer, who holds the copyright.

“The matter is being investigated.”