'PREDATOR TEACHER SHOULD BE STRUCK OFF

A TEACHER who had sex with an 18-year-old student on her mother's bed after exchanging explicit photos on Snapchat should be struck off, a fitness-to-teach inquiry heard.

- BY SEÁN MCCARTHAIGH

Counsel for the Teaching Council said the “extremely serious” findings against the teacher were incompatible with him remaining as a registered teacher.

A fitness-to-teach inquiry had previously heard evidence in July that the teacher had sex with a then 18-year-old female student - known only as Miss A - on her mother’s bed and in his car and apartment after sharing explicit photos with her on Snapchat.

It also heard the teacher had engaged in “predatory” behaviour with her best friend - a student identified as Miss B - when he kissed and touched her in a pub on their sixth-year graduation night.

At a hearing yesterday, an inquiry panel found a series of eight allegations of professional misconduct against the teacher relating to inappropriate behaviour with the two students at during the 2017/18 school year.