Teacher banned from the classroom for life after sexual relationship with pupil

9 months ago

A veteran teacher once described as “very popular” has been banned from the classroom after having a sexual relationship with a pupil.

Andrew Brook, 61, a longstanding teacher at Queen Elizabeth High School in Northumberland, developed an “inappropriate relationship” with a pupil between March 2019 and August 2020, and subsequently for six months after she left the school.

The teenager described feeling like she could not say no to the then-56-year-old father as he frequently drove her to a remote car park to have sex in the back of his van, while she was in sixth form.

Despite the girl’s attempts to end the relationship, Brook convinced her to carry on the relationship into her first term at university, where he visited her despite the country being in a national lockdown during the coronavirus pan...

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