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<\/div>\nThe teacher, Erin Hebblewhite, was jailed in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
A UK teacher, who had a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student, has been banned from teaching for life. Erin Hebblewhite, now 32, was jailed for two years and after an investigation by a misconduct panel, she has been banned from returning to the classroom. According to a Teaching Regulation Agency report<\/a>, the incident took place in 2018. Hebblewhite was sentenced to two years in prison in 2021 after a court heard she had pressured the teenage girl into sex during an illicit relationship.<\/p>\n Decisionmaker Marc Cavey wrote: “In this case, I have placed considerable weight on the very serious nature of Ms Hebblewhite’s offences which involved sexual activity with a child. I have also taken into account the lack of evidence of insight and remorse on Ms Hebblewhite’s behalf.”<\/p>\n Mr Cavey added that he gave less weight in his consideration to the “contribution that Ms Hebblewhite has made to the profession. In my view, it is necessary to impose a prohibition order in order to maintain public confidence in the profession”.<\/p>\n During the hearing in 2021, the Snaresbrook Crown Court heard that Hebblewhite groomed the student with flirty text messages and took explicit images of them naked in bed together.<\/p>\n The court was also told that the teacher first had sex with the girl in the toilet of a restaurant during a meal out for Valentine’s Day.<\/p>\n The teen’s lawyers also said that Hebblewhite was the first person to kiss her.<\/p>\n The offence came to light after the girl’s family members seized her phone and found explicit messages, according to East London and West Essex Guardian<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n The charges against Hebblewhite are related to sexual activity with a girl aged between 13 and 17 and abusing her position of trust, with another charge being sexual activity in the presence of a teenager.\u00a0<\/p>\n The other two charges were taking and possession of indecent photographs of a girl under the age of 17.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n