Teacher who preyed on pupil 'has no place at school'

A TEACHER who was caught on CCTV kissing a “particularly vulnerable” pupil at a Ramsgate school has been banned from the classroom for life.

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Lee Fountain, 46, who began working at Chatham and Clarendon Grammar School in Ramsgate as an English teacher in 2007, admitted at a teacher misconduct hearing that in October 2022 he had kissed the pupil in a classroom at the school, and put his arm around her.

Nine days later, he accepted a police caution for sexual activity with a female aged 13 to 17.

A report from the Teaching Regulation Agency noted that he admitted his conduct was sexually motivated.