Married teacher had 9-month affair with her pupil
A MARRied teacher had a nine-month-long sexual relationship with an 18year-old pupil who she invited to her home and took to hotels, a disciplinary panel was told. Amena Nazam-Khan, 36, was banned from the profession for life after admitting the affair with the teenage pupil.
The teacher used a phone app and Facebook to send him sexually ‘explicit’ messages and photographs of herself.
in the exchanges she was called ‘Baby’, while he had the username ‘The A Team,’ the misconduct panel heard.
The young man – known as pupil A – who was taught by Mrs Nazam-Khan, turned 18 during the affair, which began in January 2015 and ended in October of that year.
Both were at a school in Bradford – where Mrs Nazam-Khan had taught since 2009.
Mrs Nazam-Khan, who admitted having a sexual relationship with the boy, did not attend the disciplinary hearing in coventry in person.
The school was tipped off about the illicit relationship by email and the teacher was suspended.
After being told this, Mrs Nazam-Khan dumped her lover and messaged him saying: ‘From now you will never discuss our relationship with anyone.’ She added: ‘can i also finally request, that all my photos are deleted. All my messages are too. Because i don’t want any other disgrace by school finding them.’
The mother-of-two initially denied doing anything inappropriate, before coming clean.
No more details have been revealed of their trysts at hotels and in the family home.
pupil A told investigators they went to restaurants together, adding: ‘We went out to eat...She would never let me pay for anything.’
He recalled that once ‘we went out to eat and another student
‘Shown no remorse for her actions’
was in the restaurant and saw us,’ the hearing of the National council for Teaching and Leadership was told.
The teenager also claimed that Mrs Nazam-Khan showered him with gifts, including a Hugo Boss watch and concert tickets. But the tribunal dismissed these allegations, and the claim Mrs Nazam-Khan had paid for the meals, because they were made shortly after she had ended the relationship.
The panel said there was clear evidence that around this time pupil A was ‘feeling aggrieved and seeking vengeance.’
The panel also found that a colleague of Mrs Nazam-Khan, Sharanjit Kaur, was told by pupil A that the allegations concerning the affair were true but delayed reporting this.
it concluded that by ‘failing to report the safeguarding concern within a timely manner, Miss Kaur created a situation whereby a pupil was potentially at risk, albeit such risk was minimal’.
No order was made against her and Miss Kaur now teaches at another school.
Banning Mrs Nazam-Khan from teaching for life, adjudicator Alan Meyrick said: ‘The relationship spanned several months. The panel do not consider that Mrs Nazam-Khan has shown any remorse for her actions and the impact upon the pupil. Her remorse is largely for the impact upon her family and herself.’
Family members said Mrs Nazam-Khan and her husband – fellow teacher Nazam Arif, 36 – had previously been living with his parents but were thrown out for not obeying house rules.
The couple have been married more than a decade and have two children aged nine and 11.
A relative said: ‘We heard the rumours but thought it was all lies. We still think it is all lies. She is an okay person.’