Teacher struck off for having sex with two pupils

AN ART teacher has been struck off for having sex with two pupils, Scotland’s regulatory body for teaching has revealed.

Christopher Cunningham was convicted at Livingston Sheriff Court in February for having sex with the two girls, who are now 19, in 2008 and 2009, the General Teaching Council of Scotland (GTCS) said.

He was sentenced to 12 months in prison. At a hearing of the GTCS’s disciplinary committee, it was also decided that Cunningham should be banned from applying to be restored to the teaching register for a year.

They also referred Cunningham to the Scottish Government under section 2 of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. Cunningham, who taught at a school in West Lothian, was not at the hearing.