Teacher asks to be struck off

A TEACHER caught with indecent images of children has asked to be struck off the General Teaching Council’s register.

Peter Allan, 28, from East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, escaped a jail sentence at Hamilton Sheriff Court because the images had been at “the lower end of the scale” and a small number of them had been found.

The court heard that Allan pleaded guilty at a hearing on 2 September to possessing indecent photographs and “pseudo-photographs” of children between 13 March and 9 December 2010.

Allan was placed on probation and the sex offenders’ register for three years.