Teacher sacked after affair with teenager

A teacher has been banned from the classroom for life after an affair with a 16-year-old girl. David Fenwick, 44, kissed the girl at her school prom and went on to send her explicit messages and take her out in his car to perform sex acts. A panel from the National College of Teaching concluded Fenwick, who taught at Oxclose Community Academy in Washington, Tyne and Wear, had “used his professional position as a teacher to influence or exploit Pupil A to encourage her to enter an inappropriate relationship with him”.