A senior Scots terrorism cop has been reported to prosecutors after being accused of ‘inappropriately touching’ a woman.
15.02.2022 - 10:33 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A PE teacher has been struck off the teaching register after allegedly sleeping with a pupil.
Melissa Tweedie, 27, was banned from teaching after a disciplinary panel heard that she spent the night at a Premier Inn in Glasgow with an 18-year-old boy.
She was judged unfit to teach by a panel amid claims that she had engaged in sexual intercourse with a pupil at the hotel after a school leavers' night at SWG3 in June 2017, Glasgow Live reports.
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Despite this, the allegations against the former teacher at Glenigger High in Paisley, Glasgow, the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) did not find the allegation proven based on the weight of evidence presented.
But the former teacher was spotted dancing inappropriately with pupils and taking shots with them at the bar, according to the Daily Record.
She was later seen on a bed with an 18-year-old student who told the teaching regulator this week that the pair had sex after he drank wine, gin, beer and shots.
Miss Tweedie has denied the allegations and told the school's headteacher that she was at home when he phoned her from the hotel foyer trying to find her.
However, she later admitted to investigators that she woke up in bed with the pupil, although she denied having sex with him - she claims she may have been spiked.
Miss Tweedie is now working as a yoga teacher in Dubai and she claims she only went to the hotel because she was concerned about pupils taking drugs.
The GTCS decided to issue Miss Tweedie with a removal order after a five-day hearing, stating that her conduct fell significantly short of the expectations of a registered teacher.
Speaking on behalf of the panel, Arthur Stewart said: "It is the view of the panel that the teacher has fallen
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