Teacher handed lifelong ban from classroom after asking students to perform sex acts

A teacher has been handed a lifelong ban from any classroom in England after he was said to have kissed a student, placed her hand on his genitals, and asked pupils to perform sex acts on him.

Lee Myers, 43, was found to have acted with 'unacceptable professional conduct', having used his position to exploit a student and engage in conduct of a sexual nature with her, by a teacher misconduct panel.

The former ICT teacher was most recently employed at the Oldershaw School in Wirral. He was also was employed at other Merseyside schools; the Wallasey school between 2008 and 2016, having spent six years in a similar position at Halewood Academy. A series of more than two dozen allegations of misconduct were proven against the former teacher during a professional hearing earlier this year, reports the Liverpool Echo.

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A public report of the hearing revealed how Mr Myers was interviewed by police in April 2016. On April 15 he was made redundant from his position at the school.

In July 2017, a criminal trial of 10 charges against Mr Myers took place from which he was acquitted of all counts. He also denied any misconduct in written evidence to his tribunal.

The panel was told how during a police interview in 2017, a girl, referred to as Pupil A, revealed how another student, referred to as Pupil D, had asked Mr Myers to take them home after school. Mr Myers drove towards Liverpool, where he lived, in the opposite direction to which the students lived.

The teacher drove to an underground car park and Pupil D left the car briefly. It was here where Mr Myers was said to have squeezed the top of Pupil A’s leg.

When she told him to get off, he asked why and